/usr/people

[Brian A. Kell]

In article <9102130954.aa03988 at TBD2.BRL.MIL> glennrp at BRL.MIL (Glenn Randers-Pehrson, TBD|WMB) writes:

>   > From: steve at CHAOS.OCEAN.FSU.EDU (Steve Van Gorder)
>   > I just noticed by accident today that /usr/people is owned by guest !?!?
>   > This doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Shouldn't it be owned by root?
> 
>	   Good grief.  I found the same situation.  It was on a system
>   disc that I recently installed from scratch with the 3.3 installation
>   tapes.  On another disc running 3.3.1, but originally delivered with 3.1F
>   and then upgraded to 3.3, the ownership is "root".  On another system,
>   delivered with 3.2, the ownership is "bin".  I presume under 4.0 "mail"
>   will be the owner.

On our system (upgraded from 3.2.1 to 3.3.1) the ownership of
/usr/people is the last new user I installed using the vadmin user
tool!  This sounds like a bug to me.  

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Brian Kell                     SUNY/Albany Department of Computer Science
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