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At least one old UNIX book of French origin described the “bin” user as the owner of the common binary files on the system.
by mananaysiempre 3y ago
At least one old UNIX book of French origin described the “bin” user as the owner of the common binary files on the system.
- jmclnx 3y agoYes, that was what I remember. I think having bin own the binaries was a kind of security check for suids. Avoids having a suid on a root owned binary. Plus you could use bin to install programs instead of root. Restricting who has root access. But I suppose it did not work out as people were hoping and only added to admin costs. Still, I was a bit annoyed when I noticed everything was owned by root as opposed to bin when I first installed Slackware decades ago. But I got over it :)