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Re: exploring debian's users and groups



On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:28:43PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > Why?  It seems a good, fairly standard method for allowing (selected)
> > non-root users to configure and build system software.  (You still have
> > to become root to install it, of course, but, IMO, that should be the
> > only part of the process to require root privilege.)
> 
> Debian does not use it, and admins who need it can always create it
> himself.

Not completely unused:

~$ ls -ld /usr/src/
drwxrwsr-x    5 root     src          1024 Jun  7 23:19 /usr/src//

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