From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 2 13:01:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04271 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:01:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04255; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:01:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA26382; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:01:27 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA07672; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:01:26 -0700 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:01:26 -0700 Message-Id: <199812022101.OAA07672@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh oh... In-Reply-To: <8552.912630730@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <199812021544.KAA20290@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <8552.912630730@zippy.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > It has never in the past handled creating new users or groups. > > Witness the `network' group, the `xten' user, the `uucp' user, the `man' > > group, and the `dialer' group. > > I think xten, uucp, user and dialer have been around for long enough > that we didn't have much trouble with them. The `network' group was > another one I fielded a lot of questions over. Actually, the 'mail' group was the biggest issue I remember during upgrades, but we won't mention any names who created that one. :) :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message