On 2011-02-26 16:04 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> Package: base-passwd
> Version: 3.5.20
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi there!
>
> While reading /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.txt.gz, I
> found the following entry:
>
> Chapter 2. Users and Groups
> [...]
> sys
>
> HELP: As with bin, except I don't even know what it was good for
> historically.
>
> I'm told that /var/spool/cups is owned by group sys, dunno why.
>
> The latter, however, is not the case anymore since at least lenny, where
> /var/spool/cups is root:lp and 710. The same is true on squeeze.
Same here on my sid system, although I don't know what causes this
ownership and permissions, since the cups-daemon package ships
/var/spool/cups as root:root and 755. The latter seems to have been the
case "forever", at least since woody.
The rumor that /var/spool/cups is owned by group sys has been spread
ever since the first version of users-and-groups.sgml by Joey Hess was
checked in (commit 8cd47ac3325687 in the base-passwd git repository),
but I doubt it had ever been true. It certainly has not been for the
case for many years, so removing the paragraph seems to be the right
thing.
diff --git a/doc/users-and-groups.sgml b/doc/users-and-groups.sgml
index 5c99b70..5e9559e 100644
--- a/doc/users-and-groups.sgml
+++ b/doc/users-and-groups.sgml
@@ -159,10 +159,6 @@
files</ulink>, but this was obsoleted long ago in favour of bin
(now itself legacy; see above).
</para>
- <para>
- I'm told that <filename>/var/spool/cups</filename> is owned by
- group sys, dunno why.
- </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
Cheers,
Sven
