Bug#484841: staff group root equivalence
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Andreas Barth wrote:
> 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.
Suggest "This change should only be implemented after an appropriate
transition plan exists which enables system administrators to maintain
the ability of group staff to write to /usr/local." instead (which is
what I think you mean.)
> (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.
This seems reasonable to me too.
Don Armstrong
--
This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure.
-- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_
http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
Reply to: