>OK, you can say that it's the admin task but it would be more clean to do >this and the admin can't do everything. For example, if the dpkg >database.... would be like an email spool, owned by a group called pkg for >example, root could give the package management to a specific user. >For now, even if the admin does >addgroup pkg >chown -R root.pkg /var/lib/dpkg >chmod -R g+.... >dpkg will say that it needs root.
dpkg has to write files to directories owned by root... >What I say is maybe stupid but it would be really simpler et efficient to >divide the system into a multitude of groups. Wait a little while; there is talk of adding ACL features to linux, which would fix your '32-group' problem. Carl
