> No one has actually answered Paul's question about why it has to exist. I'm > curious about that too for my own edification. Just because its always been > there and things *might* expect it isn't a very good reason in my opinion.
Historically so that games could run as their own user so they could update the shared high score files. Alan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390