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 Message-ID: <Mutt.19970126173434.davidn@labs.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970125214008.5343A-100000@ocala.cs.miami.edu>; from "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" on Jan 25, 1997 21:41:50 -0500 References: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970125214008.5343A-100000@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
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"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/
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