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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 02 Apr 1997 08:47:51 +0200
In-Reply-To: Martin Buchholz's message of Tue, 1 Apr 1997 17:21:27 -0800
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Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

> It's not clear to me that having installed files owned by the uid
> building the binaries is such a bad thing.  It has two obvious
> advantages:
> 
> - self-documenting

:-)

> - typically the builder, installer and maintainer are the same
>   person.

Not where I work.  For example, on most systems I've seen it happens
that one person compiles the code, and then does a `su' (or calls
someone who is authorized to do `su') who installs the stuff.  The
accounts like `hniksic' are by no means secure, and I wouldn't like
the idea of having them to be able to change things that many people
use.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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I'm a Lisp variable -- bind me!

