On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:59:28AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > Incidentally, /var/cache/man has been man:root mode 2755 on Debian for a > long time. Is it just me, or is the setgid bit rather unnecessary?
it is necessary, otherwise all the cache files end up owned by random luser's primary groups. that is quite annoying when you run audits on the filesystem looking for unusal ownership. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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