On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:56:26AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 04:06:34PM +0200, Christian Gatzemeier wrote: > > BTW: What are the "bad side effects" of SETGID_HOME noted > > in the config file and what benefit did it give? > > I guess that nobody remembers any more. The change was made by Roland > eleven years ago.
Answer comes a bit late, but building a container image, software archive, chroot etc in an sgid set directory might have group names propagate into the archive and systems where it is unpacked. Unpack an arbitrary software relese tarball in an sgid home directory and tar it up again and see group ownership changed. That comes surprising for many users, so we think that it should be the decision of the local admin to set the local default to "sgid home directories". As to the original request, we do not currently plan to work on this, but will consider Merge Requests including documentation and test cases. Greetings Marc
