From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 8:42:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mylanders.com (mylanders.com [206.252.160.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6476814D6D for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 08:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nat@mylanders.com) Received: from localhost (nat@localhost) by mylanders.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA03999; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:50:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:50:30 -0500 (CDT) From: To: Mitch Vincent Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Duplicate uid and gid in password file In-Reply-To: <00c701beae9a$962ed200$0200000a@cygone.zoomnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is the default script that comes with the system. Think it could happen if two people are running the script at basically the same time? Nat On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Mitch Vincent wrote: > Eek, yes that is a problem.. > > Permissions are done with UID/GID; if you have multiple users with the same > UID or GID, those users will have control over other users' files (with > matching UID/GIDSs).. I don't know what could cause it, except a screwy > script.. I've never had that happen. > > -Mitch > > "When all your plans fail, backup, re-group and press on. The only real > failure is quitting..." > > -----Original Message----- > From: GonZo > To: nat@mylanders.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 10:55 AM > Subject: Re: Duplicate uid and gid in password file > > > >Nothing realy destructive,the system will use name which come first in > >password file > >------------- > >WBR GonZo > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message