Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 07:10:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Sizemore <steve@Math.Berkeley.EDU> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/41817: pw groupshow doesn't include the login group Message-ID: <200208311410.g7VEA4xt040010@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/41817; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Steve Sizemore <steve@Math.Berkeley.EDU> To: Juan Salaverria <rael@vectorstar.net> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, steve@ls.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: misc/41817: pw groupshow doesn't include the login group Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 07:09:19 -0700 Hi, Juan - thanks for the reply. On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 04:36:57AM -0300, Juan Salaverria wrote: > Hi, I'm not sure if this is a bug of the program, because this > behaviour is explained in the FreeBSD Handbook on the > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users-groups.html > page (look at the "Example 8-8. Adding Somebody to a Group Using pw(8)" > entry) > > I sent an email to the maintainer a couple weeks ago, asking > about the nature of this problem, and I didn't get any response yet. > > If it's a bug, maybe I can submit a patch to take care of the initial > groups listed at the /etc/passwd file. I would maintain that it's a bug, either in pw, or in the man page. The man page doesn't mention the limitation pointed out in the Handbook. (I hadn't seen that section of the Handbook - thanks for pointing it out.) Displaying all of the members of a group is a useful function, which pw would fill if it performed according to the man page. I couldn't find any other system program which would do that. Of course, it's easy to write a program to do it, but why duplicate the function of an existing program? (Assuming that pw can actually be fixed easily to do that...) For me, it's not a critical problem, so I'm happy enough to wait for a response from the maintainer. Thanks. Steve -- Steve Sizemore <steve@ls.berkeley.edu>, (510) 642-8570 Unix System Manager Dept. of Mathematics and College of Letters and Science University of California, Berkeley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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