From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IlBml-00034r-73 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:06:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9PN5JBf011607; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:05:19 GMT Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9PMxgVG003536 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:59:43 GMT Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF9953A9BC for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:59:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:59:42 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 9NMuLjqbTBHONNQ3xlrO7wLb2cT2eq3advXTBzsCpB2a 1193353182 Received: from [192.168.31.10] (cpe-24-167-121-156.satx.res.rr.com [24.167.121.156]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C36311463 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:59:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4721125E.8000506@addcom.de> References: <47207f82.08b6660a.545e.ffffcb22@mx.google.com> <1193312749.27662.34.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <4721125E.8000506@addcom.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: A Myth Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:59:41 -0500 Message-Id: <1193353181.5645.3.camel@blackwidow.nbk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 96c111bb-b492-4a7e-948d-87cf71e78a24 X-Archives-Hash: 311c50db322f122aee04dca570dbb3f3 On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 00:02 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > I'm wondering what's the advantage of using a special group for each > user. Doesn't it just make user administration more complicated? It's explained here http://tinyurl.com/4bn9h Basically it aids in the sharing of files/directories between groups. AFAIK the same thing can (and should) be done using ACLs but, unfortunately, this isn't enabled by default on most Linux distros, thus the Red Hat hack. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list