>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MH> Is there a web page (or even a file locally on my Debian/GNU 2.0
MH> system) that documents the purpose of the preassigned groups in my
MH> /etc/group?
Sorry, no idea about that
MH> For example: There is a group called www-data. I might believe that
MH> this group is the group of users that have write access to the web
MH> server directory (/var/www on my system). However, that directory and
MH> its content is owned by root.root.
This is the uid webservers use to run as.
Ciao,
Martin
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