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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: su root broken in -CURRENT 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:20:45 MST."
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On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:20:45 MST, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Isn't this backwards?  Code shouldn't be making assumptions about the
> special meaning of numeric gids.  What if you wanted to renumber gid
> wheel to something else?

So?  My primary group is 0.  In /etc/group, group wheel's numeric value
is 0.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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