on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:25:56PM -0400, Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org) wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > HELP: My system has no files owned by user games, and I don't see > > > the point of the user, aside from symmetry. > > > > Have several binaries in /usr/games with group "games". Some of > > them don't work at all if the user isn't in group "games" -- > > mostly for accessing/writing scores. Also, probably for > > powertripping sysadmins ;0 > > Hmm, I'm not sure I understand. Yes of course you have games owned by > group games. But what is the user good for? Historically I believe systems would allow access to user 'games' for the purpose of playing games. Probably and old BSD hack -- I remember playing BSD games at the Lawrence Hall of Science (above UC Berkeley), on teletype, in the 1970s. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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