Bug#484841: staff group root equivalence

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 11:22 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> 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.)

Good change.

> > (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.

I agree.

Bdale