Bug#484841: staff group root equivalence

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 00:48 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:

> Is there a use case for having people in the group staff with
> /usr/local g+w that isn't better solved using sudo to provide similar
> access? [I've never had people in the staff group, so I don't know
> what people were using it for historically.]

I can't think of such a case.  

I, too, have never used group 'staff' but have assumed others did since
I seem to recall some push-back on the idea of changing this in the
past.

Bdale