Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Installing C news
Message-ID: <1989Jun22.200604.15793@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <89Jun16.105546edt.11731@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 20:06:04 GMT

In article <89Jun16.105546edt.11731@neat.ai.toronto.edu> lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
>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).

We consider the resulting pressure to make everything important root-owned
a thoroughly bad idea.  NFS uid-mapping is a joke anyway, since non-
encrypting forms of NFS have essentially zero security. 
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