Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:44:12AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> >> "One cannot guarantee that the local admin hasn't used the account for >> other things as well." >> >> Please read. > > We cannot guarantee that an admin fiddles with binaries in /usr/bin/ (as > opposed to /usr/local/bin) either. That doesn't mean that packages have to > cope with that situation.
But chowning files to match a system account is not some weird thing that we can't expect.