Re: exploring debian's users and groups
Christian Kurz wrote:
> > daemon:
>
> This group is the traditional owner of the Spool-Directory /usr/spool,
> altough the actual owner of /var/spool may vary from system to system.
Why?
> > bin:
>
> > HELP: No files on my system are owned by user or group bin. What
> > good are they? Historically they were probably the owners of
> > binaries in /bin? It is not mentioned in the FHS, debian
> > policy, or the changelog of base-passwd or base-files.
>
> He owns typically the executable files of the user commands.
But not on debian.
> > sys:
>
> > HELP: As with bin, except I don't even know what it was good for
> > historically.
>
> The user normally owns the system files. And on System V this group
> owns the various system files as well as the special device files, which
> belong to the group kmem on BSD.
Hmm, system files are what?
Again, not on debian though.
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