Re: exploring debian's users and groups
Pawel Wiecek wrote:
> On Aug 7, 12:25pm, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > > HELP: On my system, use of group adm is confined entirely to
> > > > /var/log, and I've never seen the point. Oh, and
> > But I take your point that group adm seems to be entirely a system
> > monitoring group. The user seems unused, as far as I can tell.
>
> For those unaware -- /var/log was /usr/adm in elder unices. I guess it shows
> quite clearly that the name is related to logfiles then ;^)
Oh of course, and then /var/adm a bit later.
I think it'd be cool, and much clearer, if we renamed this user and
group to 'log'.
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see shy jo
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