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Date:      Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:54:45 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist
Message-ID:  <19980914215445.58176@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980914120524.B6204@nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 12:05:24PM -0700
References:  <199809141052.DAA15959@freefall.freebsd.org> <19980914112128.A1286@nuxi.com> <19980914204506.59599@follo.net> <19980914120524.B6204@nuxi.com>

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On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 12:05:24PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > The transition to setgid man has not yet been done (I remember planning
> > to fix this two years ago, but I've just plain forgotten...  There may
> > have been a reson why it wasn't feasible.)
> 
> The cat?/* pages will then be owned by the person that caused them to be
> created.  That's not acceptable to me.

There was the (admittedly trivial) problem that shoot down the
advantages of setgid man.  IMO: Nuke the GID.

Eivind.




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