users, groups, src accounts

[quinlan@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu (Daniel Quinlan)]

[ continuing this aside... ]

I like the idea of using a source account ("src") much better than
having each user have their own group.  I think the principle of least
astonishment pushes for this method too.

I've been using a source account on my machine for a while now and I
find that it works very nicely with the principle of avoiding using
the root account.  I only have to "sudo make install" at infrequent
intervals.

On this note, I find that having a group "man" for manual system
programs (like `man' and `apropos'), making them setgid and group man,
and chowning all of the manual pager directories "root.man" or
"bin.man" is a very safe way to operate.  This is also how "sman" (the
system I am extending) works best.

Dan

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