user owned groups

David Bear David.Bear at asu.edu
Wed May 11 09:57:07 PDT 2005


Apoligies in advance but searches based on keyword were too
voluminous.

I've noticed that with some Linux distributions the default behavior
of creating user accounts created the group with the same name as the
user, and made that group the primary group of the user. There are
other linux distributions that the throw all users into a default
group named users.

Freebsd does the first. Assuming that Freebsd was designed to be more
secure from the start, I am assuming that creating a group for each
user was also deemed a security plus.

Are there any documents explaining the reasoning behind this?

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