[1180] in NetBSD-Development
Re: sis script
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Jan 6 14:22:22 1996
To: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Jan 1996 14:17:56 EST."
<199601061917.OAA15677@lola-granola.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 14:21:53 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> While testing, I did notice that the default install flags didn't
> install using group and user 'bin'. Perhaps the Imake.tmpl should be
> changed so that our syspacks don't look like they were installed by
> the last person to run 'make install' ?
This is correct; I usually chown things so that they're owned by root
root and in group wheel. NetBSD does use owner bin and group bin.
Someone mentioned that this might be insecure under some
circumstances, but I don't think it is. I'm planning on modifying our
templates to do that.
