Bjoern Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm working on a program that collects information to be used by the sys > admin. I don't want the collected information to be world writable (even > though this wouldn't be a security hole), but I want the program to run > from user accounts (with write access to its data). > > Obviously, I have to make it SUID or SGID to something then, with > 'something' being the owner of the programs data files, but I'd like > to avoid 'something' to be root, if possible. Is there a predefined user > or group in Debian I can use for this purpose or do I have to create one > in an install script?
You should be able to create a group during installation (remove it, perhaps, during purge?). I think this is kosher. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
