Allow user install

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Jun 27 08:35:14 UTC 2012


Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> writes:
> I'm probably mistaken but I had a vague recollection that install(8)
> used to default to "-o root -g wheel" if you didn't specify something.

There was no default owner or group in 2.0.5, which was the furthest
back I could be bothered to check.  As far as I can tell, there were no
commits to install(1) between BSD 4.4 Lite and FreeBSD 2.0.5.

> And it did something obnoxious like delete the original file...

Yep, but luckily -c has been the default for years now.  I wish -C were
the default...

DES
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