Re: VMailer (Was: Status of qmail?)

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

> On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:51:12 +0100, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:
> >One other issue is that we need a `nofiles'' group, which can be expected to
> >never own any files --- how do I make that happen ?
> 
> There's already a 'nogroup' group for this purpose.

Is nogroup guaranteed never to own any files ?
(i.e. is it a bug for any process to create files belonging to that group)

If so, then that's fine, but I was under the impression that some programs
end up being nobody.nogroup and putting log files and the like in /tmp

Cheers, Phil.



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