From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 5 6:59:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kpnqwest.com (smtp.kpnqwest.com [193.242.92.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A3537B408 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 06:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntexghub01.kpnqwest.com (unverified) by kpnqwest.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:58:57 +0200 Received: by ntexghub01 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:58:57 +0200 Message-ID: <31FD3FA70CBED31189E700508B6401718E0CF1@ntexgpra01> From: "Kozlovsky, Marek" To: "'stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: weird group membership Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:58:54 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I wanted to use 'cu -l /dev/cuaa1' so I found out I have to be in 'dialer' group: buki@hal9000:/home/buki>ll /dev/cuaa1 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 129 Aug 29 16:29 /dev/cuaa1 So I su-ed to root and did 'pw user mod buki -G wheel dialer' checked with 'id buki': root@hal9000#id buki uid=1001(buki) gid=1001(users) groups=1001(users), 0(wheel), 68(dialer) it seems OK, so logged in as buki again, but: buki@hal9000:/home/buki>cu -l /dev/cuaa1 cu: /dev/cuaa1: Permission denied buki@hal9000:/home/buki>whoami buki buki@hal9000:/home/buki>id uid=1001(buki) gid=1001(users) groups=1001(users), 0(wheel) buki@hal9000:/home/buki>groups buki users wheel dialer The difference between output from 'id' and 'groups' makes me feel dizzy :( but when I (logged as buki) specify username (ie. 'id buki') the answer is right I am running on: FreeBSD hal9000.xxx.xx 4.4-RC FreeBSD 4.4-RC #0: Tue Aug 28 18:39:30 CEST 2001 root@hal9000.xxx.xx:/usr/src/sys/compile/HAL9000 i386 and the group file looks: buki@hal9000:/home/buki>cat /etc/group # $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.19 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # wheel:*:0:root,buki daemon:*:1:daemon kmem:*:2:root sys:*:3:root tty:*:4:root operator:*:5:root mail:*:6: bin:*:7: news:*:8: man:*:9: games:*:13: staff:*:20:root guest:*:31:root bind:*:53: uucp:*:66: xten:*:67:xten dialer:*:68:buki network:*:69: mysql:*:70:mysql www:*:71:www nogroup:*:65533: nobody:*:65534: users:*:1001: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message