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  • From: Ladislav Hagara <hgr AT vabo.cz>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] Re: [SM-Discuss] Re: [Bug 2129] opensshshouldcreate ssh user
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:51:19 +0100

Now I looked at RedHat distro, there is a group sshd too.
Is "nogroup" some special group, protected by linux kernel ?
What if some another daemon uses group "nogroup" too?
sshd could access to its files ?

- lace -

> It doesn't need it's own group... at least that was the last thing I
> remmeber about the last time this problem was discussed... I think
> there's even a bug for it, or perhaps it was on the ML...
> It doesn't set any files to be owned by itself, so what use would a
> group be to it?
>
>
> > Thank you.
> > And why does not sshd have its own group sshd ?
> > Why group nogroup ?
> > For example Mandrake uses group sshd too.
> > - lace -
> >
> > > This was fixed last night (hmm did I remember to close the bug?). The
> > > fix is to comment out line 41 of libgrimoire and add the line
> > > 'nogroup:65534:' to /etc/sorcery/groups.
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 04:56, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> > > > Sorcery team, please, could you modify /etc/sorcery/accounts and
> > > > /etc/sorcery/groups according to
> > > > http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2129#c3
> > > >
> > > > I installed latest iso http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/ :
> > > > /etc/sorcery/accounts contains sshd:111:65534
> > > > /etc/group contains nogroup with 65534
> > > > /etc/sorcery/groups contains sudo:111:
> > > >
> > > > My suggestion:
> > > > /etc/sorcery/accounts could contains sshd:111:111
> > > > /etc/sorcery/groups could be modified, I would added group sshd:111:
> > > > and modify group sudo:111: to for example sudo:114:
> > > >
> > > > Why does sshd use nogroup? I think sshd could have its own group sshd.
> > > > Or modify create_account function to ignore nogroup in /etc/passwd.





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