Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: bin owns stuff (was: Installing 4.3-Tahoe on a VAX)
Message-ID: <8514@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 17 Sep 88 20:02:04 GMT
References: <26049@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <5416@zodiac.UUCP> <21791@sgi.SGI.COM> <8481@smoke.ARPA> <21879@sgi.SGI.COM> <3224@geac.UUCP> <647@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <647@mace.cc.purdue.edu> dls@mace.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (David L Stevens) writes:
>	Of course, if we see some new information that makes an id other
>than root attractive, we'll change that.

UID 0 is a very special UID on UNIX systems and should not be used lightly.