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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:13:16 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp Makefile 
Message-ID:  <199809210713.IAA16167@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:42:11 PDT." <199809192242.PAA25038@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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> obrien      1998/09/19 15:42:11 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     usr.sbin/ppp         Makefile 
>   Log:
>   Remove useless `BINOWN=root' now that it is the default.
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.48      +1 -2      src/usr.sbin/ppp/Makefile

I would have thought this should stay for suid programs, where we want
BINOWN to be explicitly ``root'' rather than ``the default owner''.

That way, local configurations can change the default owner without 
breaking all suid programs.

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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