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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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