Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:51:18 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: andrew@squiz.co.nz Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: groups Message-ID: <199811180751.AAA15650@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:43:53 %2B1300." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811181429350.327-100000@aniwa.sky> References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811181429350.327-100000@aniwa.sky>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811181429350.327-100000@aniwa.sky> Andrew McNaughton writes: : 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'? No. We don't have these group/user. They were removed because they were bogus and negatively added to security, especially when files were exported via nfs. Having files owned by bin doesn't buy you anything except an extra user. This is as of 3.0, the 2.x systems will still have these users. Actually, 3.0 has them also, but it doesn't actually use them except for the ports that haven't been updated. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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