creating all users with one primary group?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sat Dec 31 13:31:04 UTC 2011



Am 31.12.2011 14:28, schrieb Frantisek Hanzlik:
> Reindl Harald napsal(a):
>>
>>
>> Am 31.12.2011 13:29, schrieb Frantisek Hanzlik:
>>> Has anyone experience with situation, when all users on Fedora
>>> distro have same primary group (i.e. is not created extra group
>>> for every user?
>>>
>>> Namely I'm asking when all programs will be working without problems.
>>
>> programs are not interested on this detail
>> applications have the needed permissions or not
>>
>> and yes, it works using only one users-group or mix users
>> andgroups in any way you want, this is how it is desgined
>> to do and having eahc user in a own group in my opinion
>> is a dumb default
> 
> I understand how permission works and that *most* apps should work
> fine. But, are not any (perhaps system or desktop environment),
> which depends e.g. "/etc/login.defs" defined "GID_MIN" variable?
> Or have some GID boundaries hard-compiled (something as suexec has)?
> Or when may be some SELINUX problems here?

what have "/etc/login.defs" to do with the fact that there is
simply no need to have a personal group for a user at all?



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