On 2010-08-12 19:25 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> I do know about groups, but I don't necessarily know the intended >> purpose of all of the pre-defined groups in a Linux system. Where >> can I find documentation for that? > > Unfortunately I have no idea. I don't even know if they are all > documented someplace. And distro to distro those will vary since they > tend to be local administration conventions.
For Debian, there is some information in the /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/ directory. >> Still, I should have noticed that the /usr/src directory was owned >> by user root and by group src. For some reason, I never made that >> connection. That's a great tip, thanks. I will have to play around >> with this. If I can get everything to work, then the next revision >> of my kernel building web page will be revised accordingly. > > Don't berate yourself. There is too much information in the universe > to know all of it! Only by working together can we manage to get a > handle on even a small fraction of it. Yes, even the base-passwd maintainers who keep the users and groups with ID < 100 in sync across Debian installations have sometimes no clue what a specific group is or was good for. Here is what they say about the 'bin' and 'sys' groups: ,---- | bin | | HELP: No files on my system are owned by user or group bin. What good are | they? Historically they were probably the owners of binaries in /bin? It is | not mentioned in the FHS, Debian Policy, or the changelogs of base-passwd | or base-files. | [...] | | sys | | HELP: As with bin, except I don't even know what it was good for | historically. `---- Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ocd74swz....@turtle.gmx.de
