Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:36:03 -0700 From: Derrick MacPherson <dmacpherson@mainframe.ca> To: Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: adduser re-writting groups file incorrectly Message-ID: <1123187763.22409.83.camel@Mandarin-04.mainframe.ca>
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I have a 4.10 machine thats our internal mailserver. we use NIS for the accounts, we add a couple local accounts just in case NIS can't be contacted... We had our software developers make a change to all users PATH, part of which points to a different version of the su command, which we've since discovered doesn't work under fbsd (linux all over here, but i'm trying to change it), that change was made without my knowing. While I was out for lunch one the admins tried to su and couldn't, they assumed they needed a local account, so they used the adduser script to add a user. the next available UID was taken for the account and when the account was created I think it errored on creating the home dir, because it happened to clash with a UID out of NIS. The big kafuffle out of this is that it wrote the group file with the NIS entry written at the top, which caused mail to stop working as it was picking up the wrong UID for mail out of NIS. I was able to recreate this once, but not in 3 more attempts. I guess this isn't a question just a comment I wanted to toss out there...
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