Scratch that. Using 'owner' on a root-owned but world readable file is probably ill-advised in an abstraction. It seems plausible for an application to do NSS lookup for user/group while running as non-root.
Scratch that. Using 'owner' on a root-owned but world readable file is probably ill-advised in an abstraction. It seems plausible for an application to do NSS lookup for user/group while running as non-root.