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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: wiki changes
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:44:48 +0100
From: uriel@cat-v.org
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>> 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