Previously Joey Hess wrote: > majordom: > > Majordomo has a statically allocated uid on Debian systems for > historical reasons. > > HELP: Do we still even ship that buggy old POS? And can someone > remember what the hysterical raisins were?
No longer created on new systems. > voice: > > HELP: ? voicemail, useful for systems that use modems as answering machines. > src: > > This group owns source code, including files in /usr/src. It can be > used locally to give a user the ability to manage system source > code. > > HELP: /usr/src is owned by group src and is setuid. This doesn't > make files put there by foo-src packages necessarily be owned > by group src though. If the intent is to make group src be > able to manage source code, perhaps policy should say that > foo-src packages make files in /usr/src owned and writable by > the group (and files in tarballs dropped there likewise?) I wouldn't mind ditching that group. > staff: > > HELP: So, /usr/local and /var/local are owned by it, but how's it > differ from say, adm, and what's the historical meaning, and > the current purpose? adm are administrators and is mostly useful to allow them to read logfiles without having to su. staff is useful for more helpdesk/junir sysadmins type of people and gives them the ability to do things in /usr/local and create directories in /home. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
