Re: Preparing Debian for using capabilities: file ownership.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:43:52AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
>Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>> It should be:
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 42300 jul 29 13:26 /bin/ls*
>>
>Using an existing group like bin could cause problems. It's possible
>systems exist that have users in the bin group and don't expect them to
>suddenly be able to edit every file on the system. (What is the bin
>group used for now, anyway? Only 3 files on my system are owned by it.) We
>should probably make a new group if we do this.
That's three more than on mine,
find / \( -user bin -o -group bin \) -ls
produces zip.
On AT&T based machines though, ownership of most stuff in bin and lib is
bin.bin .
Regards,
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