On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:59:28 -0500, Jason Hellenthal
<[email protected]> wrote:
Security principles are well laid out and have not changed in a long
time. Vering away from those principles will cause a LOT of
administrative overhead as most software out there can expect a sane
environment if / is root:wheel
Well he claims that bin owned everything back in the day and I didn't
touch a *nix system until long after the time he describes. I can't
imagine the benefit or functionality of a system with bin owning
everything.... if everything precious is owned by bin, and bin isn't a
standard system user, someone would have to elevate to root to do anything
nasty. In the current setup you'd have to elevate to root to do something
nasty.
I see no benefit in binaries or libraries being owned by bin.
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