Re: exploring debian's users and groups
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:25:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > > HELP: My system has no files owned by user games, and I don't see
> > > the point of the user, aside from symmetry.
> >
> > Have several binaries in /usr/games with group "games". Some of
> > them don't work at all if the user isn't in group "games" --
> > mostly for accessing/writing scores. Also, probably for
> > powertripping sysadmins ;0
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure I understand. Yes of course you have games owned by
> group games. But what is the user good for?
Got me.
> > User postgres owns all the files in /var/lib/postgresql. It
> > needs to to enforce proper security. Think there's a similar on
> > for mysqld ? This is pretty standard for databases management
> > systems.
>
> I wonder why it needs a staticall allocated id though?
Hmm, backups?
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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