README.privsep

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> said:
> > On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 09:25, Jim Knoble wrote:
> >
> > > I would rather say here:
> > >
> > >           chown 0 /var/empty
> > >           chgrp 0 /var/empty
> >
> > I recall that numeric arguments to some OS's chown & chgrp fail.
>
> chown `grep '^[^:]*:[^:]*:0:' /etc/passwd | head -1 | cut -d: -f1` /var/empty
> chgrp `grep '^[^:]*:[^:]*:0:' /etc/group | head -1 | cut -d: -f1` /var/empty
>
> I think that would cover everyone (at least if they use a Bourne shell
> :-) ).

Gawd.. Lets leave it as is.  It's rather not have people coming into
#unixhelp whining about some wierdass command to run.=)

It's bad enough getting the Linux 2.2 questions.

- Ben