Re: [Sheflug] Weird permissions problems

[Dave Turner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:47:01PM +0100, Craig Andrews wrote:
> Dang it. Thanks to the RedHat 'standard' of having each user with a group 
> with the same name as the user (why??) on one machine I have 

The scheme you are refering to is called User Private Groups and has
been used by Red Hat Linux for some time now.  You can find more
information about it here:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-users-groups-private-groups.html


Sorry about the crufty long uri. :o\


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