User private groups are not an abnormal configuration, but
GHCi has such strict security that they are not allowed!
:; ghci
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On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 10:25 -0800, Jason Dusek wrote:
I appreciate what you guys are trying to do, but I at the very
least, it should be permitted to use a GHCi that is group
readable/writable as long as the group name and user name are
the same.
Hmm. That's a convention but it
all over the
filesystem, hoping someone will be so unlucky as to start a
GHCi session there. User private groups do provide a way to
avert this danger -- check that the only member of the owning
group is the active user -- so there is no need to worry in
that specific case. (Or is there? I