[ On Thursday, June 24, 2004 at 15:22:09 (-0700), Erik E. Fair wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: bin account obsolescence
>
> Originally, having all non-setuid binaries owned by bin was a 
> privilege separation thing. I don't recall why we stopped doing that.

"privilege separation" is an interesting way to put it.  :-)

The "bin" account is, and always was, a form of back door hiding as a
convenience trick (or vice versa :-).

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