On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:38:28PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > > No, but it's a good idea. It makes it much easier to work in > > directories shared with other users (but not all users), because > > you don't have to keep changing your umask all the time, or > > even worse, fixing file permissions because you (or somebody > > else) forgot to change their umask. > [...] > How does giving every user his own group makes it easier for > him to share files without system administrator's intervention? > I couldn't guite get it, sorry I just woke up but I simply > don't understand it. A small example?
It allows users to set their default umask to allow group access. That way, when they are working in their own directories, their files will only be readable/writable/etc. by themselves, and when working in a shared directory, the files will be readable/writable/etc. by other members of the group. All without having to change the umask or set any permissions manually. -- - mdz