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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Multiple Root ID's considered evil?
Message-ID: <11041@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Sep 89 17:03:45 GMT
References: <1723@convex.UUCP> <11038@smoke.BRL.MIL> <89Sep12.115240edt.2385@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <89Sep12.115240edt.2385@neat.cs.toronto.edu> rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) writes:
>We did start out with most of our binaries owned by a non-0 id for
>ideological reasons, but quickly reverted to root ownership because of
>these problems.  It is easier to firewall root than a zoo of other ids.

Yes, but the idea is to have a set-UID (0 in this case) program for
installing the software, not to turn loose humans with elevated permissions.