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From: Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-security-local_at_be-well.no-ip.com)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 13:07:59 CST

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    Klaus Steden <klauscompt.com> writes:

    > Can anyone explain to me the benefits of per-user groups? It seems to me that
    > modern *nix systems, FreeBSD included, create a new group for each user.

    The only thing that does this is adduser(8), which is just a script
    that can be (and is) adapted easily for people with different kinds of
    policies in mind.

    > Is there a security benefit (or some other benefit) to be had by this? Why has
    > it apparently been adopted as a convention by the free *nix flavours?

    There's an explanation in the manual for adduser(8)...

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