On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 11:22 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > 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.)
Good change. > > (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. I agree. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
