Re: exploring debian's users and groups

[Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@ieeesb.etsit.upm.es>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:31:52PM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> > bin:
> >
> > 	HELP: No files on my system are owned by user or group bin. What
> > 	      good are they? Historically they were probably the owners of
> > 	      binaries in /bin? It is not mentioned in the FHS, debian
> > 	      policy, or the changelogs of base-passwd or base-files.
> 
> I can confirm that on Solaris 2.5, bin is the owner and group of most
> files in /bin, /usr/bin, et al. I don't go back all that far in unix, so
> I don't know why that is.

	I can confirm the same for AIX 4.3.3

	Regards

	Javi