Re: Preparing Debian for using capabilities: file ownership.
Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Sep 21, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
>
> >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
> I don't agree. Being the owner of system binaries is the only reason
> for the existence of the bin user and group.
Since basically no system binaries are owned by it NOW, it has no
purpose now, so it is quite reasonable to think a sysadmin might
appropriate it for their own purposes.
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