Re: exploring debian's users and groups
On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 at 17:04:16 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:45:28AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > True. Since we have the 'man' group anyway and aren't using it, how
> > about switching the group of everything under /var/cache/man to that and
> > having the directories setgid man? The setgid root directories have
> > always seemed a bit odd to me, although in this case the exact group is
> > really only cosmetic.
>
> makes sense, also while were at it why is the man user set to primary
> group users instead of group man?
[fx: looks in group.master]
Oh. Possibly because the man group doesn't exist statically after all.
Should it be created and have the man user put in it? Or maybe I should
just not rock the boat too much while it's afloat.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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