group(s) for ordinary users

[Dirk Ullrich]

Hi, PLD users,

I am setting up a PLD system (AC) using the PLD rescue CD.
Now I'm about to create a normal user account, and I see 2 variants to
choose a group for normal users:
1. Use private groups,
i.e. every normal user "foo" gets its own private group "foo";
2. A common group for all normal users,
i.e. use one group--typically "users"--for every normal user.
Most distros prefer one of these variants by default. (For instance
Debian prefers 1, but Slackware 2 AFAIK.) What's about PLD?
Is one of 1 or 2 the 'PLDish' one?

Dirk

[Jakub Bogusz]

Post by Dirk Ullrich
Hi, PLD users,
I am setting up a PLD system (AC) using the PLD rescue CD.
Now I'm about to create a normal user account, and I see 2 variants to
1. Use private groups,
i.e. every normal user "foo" gets its own private group "foo";
2. A common group for all normal users,
i.e. use one group--typically "users"--for every normal user.
Most distros prefer one of these variants by default. (For instance
Debian prefers 1, but Slackware 2 AFAIK.) What's about PLD?
Is one of 1 or 2 the 'PLDish' one?

Second scheme with "users" group is used normally.

[Dirk Ullrich]

Hi, Jakub,

thank you for your answer. After exploring the PLD rescue CD a little bit
more I've found the "pldconf" program to do many central sysadmin tasks.
Choosing "Accounts" --> "Add user" teaches me the same what have written:
"users" is the default group for creating a user.

Despite "pldconf" I prefer to do admin stuff by hand since I'm first of all
interested in what is happing under the hood. But looking at "pldconf" and its
code teaches a lot of the PLD way to do things.

Dirk