/opt not owned by root

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Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 10:50:13 EST

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Hi,
 
We have received a request from a department to chown /opt to a user and group other than root root:sys on a Solaris 8 box, and I was wondering which if any consequences this might have for the system.
 
Is there any reason to not allow this?
 
Thanks in advance!
 
-Joe

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