Archaic wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 01:15:46AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > >>Thoughts from the group would be appreciated... > > > A generic users groups seems like it could be a security nightmare for a > sysadmin. People who do need to share files generally belong to a > descriptive group such as research, marketing, admin, etc... and they > are put in those groups deliberately and not because useradd said 'x' > gid was where they should go. >
I think that means that Randy is right, and we need a short explanation. Your reasoning should go in it. But in the end it's a sysadmin decision and will depend on the situation, and that needs to be made clear. There will always be a minority of BLFS readers who want a 'prescription', but we should tell them forcibly that they are going to have to 'think' rather than 'cut&paste'. I'd then change the package instructions to take out the prescriptive groups and say 'Create a unique group and unpriviledged user...'. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
