[HN Gopher] The How and Why of User Private Groups in Unix
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       The How and Why of User Private Groups in Unix
        
       Author : swills
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2023-07-31 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | freedomben wrote:
       | tldr: It's part of a solution to make adminstering shared
       | machines (machines with more than one user) easier by using the
       | setgid bit and a umask that allows rw for groups.
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       | Interesting, I've occasionally wondered why UPGs are a thing, but
       | never enough to research it. Like so many things nowadays, I take
       | a Chesterton's Fence approach and assume things are that way
       | because at some point it became a best practice for some reason.
        
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