Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> wrote: > Philip Hands: > > Is nogroup guaranteed never to own any files ? > > The Policy manual does not guarantee it, but it's the only reason for > the group (and the corresponding user) to exist in the first place. > Actually, the Policy manual doesn't even mention nogroup. > > A change to the policy manual might be good to document this, so perhaps > those who are on debian-policy could suggest something along the following > lines: > > 3.2 Users and groups > > ... > > 65534: > User `nobody' or group `nogroup'. No files should be > owned by this user or group. This seems reasonable. If no one objects I'll upload a copy of the policy manual with this change. While I'm about it, I'll set the Maintainer to be me (since no one else seems to be volunteering for the Policy Manager job). Cheers, Phil.
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