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Re: Bug#484841: staff group root equivalence



Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> writes:

> For this reason, I intend to propose the following options:
>
> 1. Keep /usr/local writeable by group staff (i.e. leave things as they
> are).
>
> 2. Decide to change the default so that /usr/local is not writeable by
> group staff anymore. This change should only be implemented after an
> appropriate transition plan exists, so that system administrators can
> keep that functionality. (Reasons for the change are the adaption of
> other tools like sudo on most sites, and the concept of "least
> surprise" for novice users.)
>
> 3. Further discussion.

Sounds good to me.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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