On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:39 PM, a b <obsdmiscsub@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> 1/ Why does OpenBSD not chown files to
> root ?

How would you install a file owned by somebody else?

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> 2/
> Why does OpenBSD expect the install.site file to be already chmod 755 ?

Because those are the permissions that identify executable files.

Your two questions are really "Why does OpenBSD treat these files like
all the other files?"  The answer is that those files are like all the
other files.