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Re: /etc/group



On 2010-03-02 12:20 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:

> Users and groups that are not created on package installation are
> documented in the base-passwd package.  For example, for the ssh group
> you mention it contains the following information:
>
>   ssh: ssh-agent is setgid to ssh in order to prevent ptrace attacks.

This is not really a very good example, because the ssh group is only
created when you install the openssh-client package.  The static groups
can be seen in the file /usr/share/base-passwd/group.master.

Sven


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