Status of User Private Group Scheme (UPG)

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Jan 6 07:32:02 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 16:47 -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> According to the changelog for the setup RPM, /etc/bashrc was changed
> last March to use 022 for all accounts. However, private primary groups
> are still created for user accounts.
> 
> The current situation is odd, however, with (a) still in effect, but (b)
> gone. There is no mention in any release notes that I can find.

Hm, this would be why all group-writable stuff started breaking after
the update to FC6 :)

> Why the change, and what's the plan/status of UPG?

Is there a bug filed?

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dwmw2




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