Re: exploring debian's users and groups
* Wichert Akkerman
| Previously Dave Sherohman wrote:
| > Why? It seems a good, fairly standard method for allowing (selected)
| > non-root users to configure and build system software. (You still have
| > to become root to install it, of course, but, IMO, that should be the
| > only part of the process to require root privilege.)
|
| Debian does not use it, and admins who need it can always create it
| himself.
Actually -- /var/lib/cvs is writable by group src. Which is a good
thing, imho. (So it's used by cvs, which is part of Debian)
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