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Date: Mon,  8 Nov 2004 08:51:18 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Matthias Teege <mteege@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] account for administration?
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> Sometime I need to change files where the owner/group is adm or sys. I
> can add myself to this groups with uname adm +me. Is it usefull to use
> a separate account (meadmin) for administrative tasks or doesn't
> matter it? I don't wan't to introduce root again so what is the plan 9
> way?

We just put people who need such power into sys.
Adm is really for running the file server and you 
shouldn't need anyone in that group.

Occasionally we've had people who didn't trust
their fingers and wanted an "in-sys" account separate
from their normal account so that they couldn't
make mistakes that affected everyone while doing
their everyday work.  When they wanted to do admin
stuff they logged in as themsys instead of them.

Russ