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Re: exploring debian's users and groups



On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:45:28AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> True. Since we have the 'man' group anyway and aren't using it, how
> about switching the group of everything under /var/cache/man to that and
> having the directories setgid man? The setgid root directories have
> always seemed a bit odd to me, although in this case the exact group is
> really only cosmetic.

makes sense, also while were at it why is the man user set to primary
group users instead of group man?

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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