On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 04:42:40PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > >OK, you can say that it's the admin task but it would be more clean to do > >this and the admin can't do everything. For example, if the dpkg > >database.... would be like an email spool, owned by a group called pkg for > >example, root could give the package management to a specific user. > >For now, even if the admin does > >addgroup pkg > >chown -R root.pkg /var/lib/dpkg > >chmod -R g+.... > >dpkg will say that it needs root. > > dpkg has to write files to directories owned by root...
Yes, I forgot this. But in the other examples, it would be better to have more groups, wouldn't be ? > > >What I say is maybe stupid but it would be really simpler et efficient to > >divide the system into a multitude of groups. > > Wait a little while; there is talk of adding ACL features to linux, which > would fix your '32-group' problem. > > Carl > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- | . ICQ : 25529539 | | |\ | | | \ / AIM : linhax |___ | | \| |__| / \ IRC nick : linhax Sami Dalouche : [EMAIL PROTECTED] DHIS : pingoo.dhis.org