chmod to other than root:wheel

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:41:50 -0400
"Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org> mentioned:

> A user has suggested installing bconsole (part of the sysutils/bacula-
> client port) as "chgrp bacula" and "chmod g+w", as opposed to the 
> default root:wheel.  I think that makes sense.  Do we have a policy 
> on this type of thing?
> 

Why you need to make executable group-writable? For what it's intended
for?

Regarding datafiles - we have a lot of ports that change owner/group/perms
of installed files. You could redefine SHAREMODE/SHAREOWN/SHAREGRP
variables to install with right permissions.

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Stanislav Sedov         MBSD labs, Inc.         <ssedov at mbsd.msk.ru>
Россия, Москва         http://mbsd.msk.ru

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