** Description changed: Binary package hint: debian-installer Following is a little informative text for the "set up users and passwords" stage: --- - It is easy for multiple users to collaborate on a debian/ubuntu system. - Just keep in mind that access to files always depends on the permissions - of the file itself AND the permissions of the directory path to it. - Files are by default readable for whoever has access to them, just as - paper files are, but not writeable. If you don't want others to read - your files, keep them in a private/ subdirectory. The path into your - home directory is not restricted, just as the path others can take to - ring your bell at home. As a matter of fact you may post some files on - your door for others or to read, many services act on config files that - you deposit in your home path. Besides other users may want to leave - files for you personally in your incomming/ directory. + The informational text suggested is updated under "User's perspective" + on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiUserManagement - In debian the primary group of each user is by default a private user - group, the single member being the user itself. This allows to grant - group write permissions to created files by default. No one exept the - owning user will be able to write to the file if it has not been created - in a group directory. - - Group directories (directories with the set-group-id flag set) are - special places that all users are able to visit and the members of the - group that owns the directory will be allowed to write files in it. - Files created in these places will belong not only to the creating user - but to the group. Other than that, group directories work simmilar as - home directories, the group can keep files that should be readable only - by group members in a private subdirectory. - - Group directories may be set up by regular users in their home directories, or in /home/shared by the system administrator or the addgroup command. --- - Things that ease collaboration further: create: /etc/skel/priv or private (drwxrwx---) /etc/skel/incomming (drws--s-wt or something) /home/shared/users (drwxrwsr-x root:users) For the latter to work /etc/security/groups needs to contain "*;*;*;Al0000-2400;users" then all users will automatically belong to the "users" group on systems with private user groups) (a /etc/skel/public might be misleading, so we leave this one out)
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