On Thursday 24 June 2004 16:05, Chris Ross wrote:
> ...
>    Binaries being owned by root are just different, because they're
> root.  I think the idea of having a non-uid-0 account own general
> system binaries seems like a fine idea.  I've no idea if that was
> behind the original creation of the "bin" user, but.
> ...

If I remember correctly, NFS mounted binaries owned by bin created a bit 
of a security hole on a previous version of SunOS :-)

Sverre