> Thanks for all your replies. > > I guess my original questions were perhaps > written in haste, however in a way I still think it would make sense for > OpenBSD to check the permissions of key files (/etc/security style). I > would have thought there is no reason why files already owned by root in a > default install (etcXX.tgz) should be owned by another user when put in place > by a siteXX file.
Oh come on, admit it, you are wrong. Say you specifically wanted to change the uid a file, using siteXX.tgz With this model, you can. Wth what you suggest, you can't. It is obvious.