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To: Marc Baudoin <babafou@babafou.eu.org>
Cc: netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: root, toor, csh, sh... (LONG) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:55:46 +0100."
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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:03:43 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> I'd like to focus the discussion back to technical matters,

(On an advocacy list?  Okay...)

> news, ingres and falken (and maybe operator) are wrong because they
> don't own any file in a full installation.

That's a non sequitur.  news in particular should remain because it
standardizes the news uid, so that you can move a spool from one
NetBSD machine to another without fixing uids.  (We've added a "mail"
uid for that reason as well, although it's more important there
because mail systems tend to have setuid programs.)