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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Installing C news
Message-ID: <89Jun16.105546edt.11731@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 16 Jun 89 14:55:40 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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In article <3176@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
>The trouble that I'm having is that doit.bin fails because the 'bin' user
>doesn't have permissions to write into the .../conf subdirectory (chmod 755
>and owned by 'news').  Even if I add 'bin' to the 'news' group and change
>the permissions to 775, I still have some troubles with who-owns-what further
>on down the road.

Independently of the problem you describe: While having binaries owned by bin
is a nice idea, be aware that "bin" is not special-cased by system-software
like root is (think of NFS uid-mapping, for example -- there isn't any for
"bin", etc, etc).

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4