Re: RfD: documentation for statically assigned uid and gid

[md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri)]

On Jun 02, Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:

 >i don't really see the advantage of using gid bin in this manner but
 >openbsd does it quite consistently.  long ago binaries were owned by
 >bin, but that of course does nasty things to NFS root_squash...
I think this could become important when capabilities and MAC will be
used.

 >i have a user account with primary group src that i use for all local
 >compilation, that way the source code is still protected from my
 >normal uid and all users can still see source code.  i never compile
You could put it in your home as well.

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ciao,
Marco