"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jald...@debian.org> writes: > What is the reason for mailboxes to be owned by group mail when in > Debian we have per-user groups and AFAIK no daemons or other system > processes belong to the mail group?
So that you can, if you choose, run mail delivery agents and POP/IMAP servers as something other than root. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f102 -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ip7x68mg....@windlord.stanford.edu