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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:29:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc group
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021013122802.44458F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200210131626.g9DGQRj6097754@freefall.freebsd.org>

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I was going to make a similar change to remove root from wheel in
/etc/group, but couldn't remember if there would be nasty side effects.
There didn't appear to be any in local testing, but you should count this
as a solicitation to inquire as to whether there are some I haven't found.

Generally speaking, we appear to have a convention (reinforced by our user
management tools) that we don't explicitly list users whose primary gid is
that of a group in that group definition.

FWIW, I notice that root is also a member of a boatload of funky groups
(staff, kmem, ..) which is a bit odd also, in my view.  I'll probably
clean that up also unless there are objections.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Robert Watson wrote:

> rwatson     2002/10/13 09:26:26 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc                  group 
>   Log:
>   For consistency with other entries in group, don't put the daemon or
>   xten users in their groups explicitly--we pick that up from the gid
>   field in master.passwd.
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.25      +2 -2      src/etc/group
> 


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