From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 25 22:34:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA19585 for current-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 22:34:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA19576 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 22:34:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by labs.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA03440; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:34:35 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:34:34 +1100 From: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu (Joe Marcus Clarke) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-SNAP-970118 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.56 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" on Jan 25, 1997 21:41:50 -0500 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" writes: > I have noticed that the adduser command under this SNAP does not > correctly add users to /etc/group. I have to manually edit this file to > get users to correspond to their respective groups. Are you talking about primary or secondary group memberships? A user's primary group membership should not appear in /etc/groups if that group's uid is in /etc/master.passwd. That is redundant. The only exception to this is when adding a member to group wheel. su only looks at /etc/group in this case (which, actually, I consider a bug, but not a large one). Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/