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To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Files with nonexistent groups
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At 03:17 PM 4/10/98 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote:

>That GID 6 is missing is odd though. GID 6 is the mail group, which is a
>group that is installed by default. 

It's possible that this wasn't so in an earlier version of FreeBSD, and
the old /etc/group file was "inherited."

I checked a more recent system, and discovered that group 68 is "dialer".
Oddly, when I did an ls -al, some of the devnodes for serial devices
said "uucp dialer" for owner and group, respectively, while others said
"uucp 68". Weird.

--Brett


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