Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:33:05 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: adduser(8) removes comments from /etc/group - was: Re: minor nit with 4.0-RC2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002261414140.20343-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000222011805.00844100@207.227.119.2>
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> >I'm not sure I understand this - sysinstall doesn't install an
> >/etc/group file so there's really no "sysinstall version" which is
> >distinct from that installed as part of the bindist, at least to my
> >knowledge.
>
> Nevermind.
>
> Manually extracted etc/group and it has the tag line.
>
> Must/might be losing it, but then I don't strip the tag lines when I edit
> files. 8-/
>
> Then again maybe adduser does this. Could start fresh again I suppose and
> see what went wrong or if I lose my pilots license.
>
adduser(8) will remove any comments from /etc/group, including the
$FreeBSD tag.
Does sysinstall call adduser?
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:{ andyf@speednet.com.au
Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
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