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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 1998 06:59:53 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        imp@village.org, obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist
Message-ID:  <199809142059.GAA21366@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>: 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.
>
>Group man was invented so that man could be setgid man and be able to
>write out catman pages as people generated them...

It was invented to confuse people into thinking that a setgid man could
possibly work :-).

Bruce



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