User groups

Jan Morales jan at geezjan.org
Fri Feb 18 19:32:35 UTC 2005


I started using Unix a long time ago, before the practice of having one 
group per user emerged. You used to have one group, e.g. "users", that 
all users were members of and everyone's umask was 022. Now user "joe" 
is a member of group "joe" and his umask is 02. Can someone point me to 
a reference for the rationale for this scheme? I don't really understand 
it yet. Thanks!




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