Re: exploring debian's users and groups
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:07:13AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Why do it that way around instead of ownership root.news, mode 0640?
> That way a program running as group news would be able to read it,
> but modifications would remain restricted to root.
No particular reason other than that that's what I inherited when I took
over the package (IIRC). I'll give that a spin - I think everything
runs with appropriate rights.
[Cutting out most of the CCs]
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