On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:25:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > HELP: My system has no files owned by user games, and I don't see > > > the point of the user, aside from symmetry. > > > > Have several binaries in /usr/games with group "games". Some of > > them don't work at all if the user isn't in group "games" -- > > mostly for accessing/writing scores. Also, probably for > > powertripping sysadmins ;0 > > Hmm, I'm not sure I understand. Yes of course you have games owned by > group games. But what is the user good for?
Got me. > > User postgres owns all the files in /var/lib/postgresql. It > > needs to to enforce proper security. Think there's a similar on > > for mysqld ? This is pretty standard for databases management > > systems. > > I wonder why it needs a staticall allocated id though? Hmm, backups? -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
