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  • From: Pierre Abbat <phma AT webjockey.net>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] group: man
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 20:14:10 -0400

On Friday 06 June 2003 18:53, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Notes:
> /mnt/smgl is a mount to root on my SMGL box at work (has Sorcery 1.0.6)
> / is a mount to root on my RedHat box at work (v9.0)
>
> [root@isp39 root]# cat /mnt/smgl/etc/group|grep man
> [root@isp39 root]# cat /etc/group|grep man
> man:x:15:
> [root@isp39 root]#
>
> [root@isp39 root]# cat /mnt/smgl/etc/passwd|grep man
> man:x:6:100:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh
> [root@isp39 root]# cat /etc/passwd|grep man
>
> It appears we have it backwards, or RedHat does (brief: we have 'man' in
> /etc/passwd, RedHat has 'man' in /etc/group), but the application I am
> working on (yard: http://www.linuxlots.com/~fawcett/yard/) said that he is
> trying to follow LSB on where things are, but I haven't looked up where
> 'man' should go, either /etc/passwd, /etc/group, or both.
>
> Thoughts?

If the smgl box has man as 6:100, that's wrong. It should be 106:106. The
uids
are defined in /etc/sorcery/accounts and /etc/sorcery/groups and are added to
/etc/passwd and /etc/group by a routine that is called when a spell is cast.

phma
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