On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Andreas Barth wrote: > For this reason, I intend to propose the following options: > > 1. Keep /usr/local writeable by group staff (i.e. leave things as they > are). > > 2. Decide to change the default so that /usr/local is not writeable by > group staff anymore. This change should only be implemented after an > appropriate transition plan exists, so that system administrators can > keep that functionality.
Suggest "This change should only be implemented after an appropriate transition plan exists which enables system administrators to maintain the ability of group staff to write to /usr/local." instead (which is what I think you mean.) > (Reasons for the change are the adaption of other tools like sudo on > most sites, and the concept of "least surprise" for novice users.) > > 3. Further discussion. This seems reasonable to me too. Don Armstrong -- This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure. -- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
