Re: exploring debian's users and groups
- To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org
- Cc: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>, debian-doc@lists.debian.org, base-passwd@packages.debian.org
- Subject: Re: exploring debian's users and groups
- From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:30:16 -0800
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20010807163016.Q9274@plato.local.lan>
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- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20010807045928.A5554@debian.org>; from cjwatson@debian.org on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:59:28AM -0500
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:59:28AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> Incidentally, /var/cache/man has been man:root mode 2755 on Debian for a
> long time. Is it just me, or is the setgid bit rather unnecessary?
it is necessary, otherwise all the cache files end up owned by random
luser's primary groups.
that is quite annoying when you run audits on the filesystem looking
for unusal ownership.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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