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Date:      Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:43:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist
Message-ID:  <199809141843.OAA26958@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980914112128.A1286@nuxi.com>
References:  <199809141052.DAA15959@freefall.freebsd.org> <19980914112128.A1286@nuxi.com>

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<<On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:21:28 -0700, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> said:

> I can't decide what the group should be for the man tree.  Security wise,
> "wheel" like all the others.  But I'm not sure if group "man" was
> invented for any real reason, like group "games" for a few setgid bins.

It's owned by `man' so that `man' can cache formatted catpages.  The
group `man' was probably invented just so that user `man' would have
its own primary group.

-GAWollman

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