Re: NetBSD and User Private Groups (Unique Groups)

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 09:36:02AM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using 9.0_RC1, so I don't know if this is a functionality that was used
> in the past and then dropped or will be introduced in the future.
> 
> At one point in time, probably around 10+ years ago, Red Hat introduced User
> Private Groups [1]. I ignore if other OSes have had this feature before
> (probably Mac OSX ?). Anyway, this has then spread to all other major Linux
> distros. FreeBSD calls them "unique groups" [2]. OpenBSD has this line in
> /etc/usermgmt.conf:
> 
> group           =uid

I never understood how this would be usefull

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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