From: uriel@cat-v.org
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: wiki changes
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:44:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5ac3d949ab7341e630b64f12346529a@cat-v.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa342973c24d6e6d602a0a09d916f380@swtch.com>
>> What is the purpose for the adm user/group? Shouldn't sys be enough?
>> I'm probably missing something obviously.
>
> adm is the file server (and eve owns the cpu).
> no one can be adm.
But sys is member of group adm by default. I'm still somewhat
confused as to what the roles of each are, adm as far I can see just
owns a few files under /adm, which can be written to by sys anyway, so
what is the purpose of adm?
Sorry for being dense.
uriel
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[not found] <b8fb0cd32aa3b19d181f5b0db1fec046@swtch.com>
2006-02-16 16:20 ` uriel
2006-02-16 11:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-02-16 16:44 ` uriel [this message]
2006-02-16 17:22 ` Russ Cox
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2006-02-16 16:10 ` uriel
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