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I'd like to obtain a consensus guideline on an an issue which is
treated inconsistently in FreeBSD's user space: Is it true, as I
believe, that group rwx bits are the principal correct and appropriate
mechanism to allow a specific group of users to control aspects of
system administration which are protected from control by the body of
users at large?

My specific motivation is that everytime I cvsup, I have to patch
sendmail and ppp to suppress their group-writable-config
errors/warnings.  If a clear consensus existed that these
errors/warnings were spurious, then a PR might have a snowball's
chance of remedying the situation.  If not, then at least I could give
up one wasted quixotic hope.







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