From owner-freebsd-security Tue Nov 17 19:24:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09028 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:24:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aniwa.sky (p9-nas1.wlg.ihug.co.nz [216.100.145.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09022 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:24:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by aniwa.sky (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA02037 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:43:55 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:43:53 +1300 (NZDT) From: Andrew McNaughton X-Sender: andrew@aniwa.sky Reply-To: andrew@squiz.co.nz To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: groups In-Reply-To: <199811180046.SAA23057@s07.sa.fedex.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Too much of a tangent to to put it into the existing thread: Can someone give me a description of why we have user and group 'bin'? Clearly there's a good deal of variance in whether things get installed as root/wheel or bin/bin. I'm not at all clear on what it is intended to acheive, when it should be used and why. Is there any documentation of the purpose and implications of the groups used by freebsd as installed? Andrew McNaughton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message