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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] group: man
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:33:14 -0700 (PDT)


Pierre Abbat said:
> 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

Which spell? Probably man? Or just any spell adds all of the accounts?
If so, why is it not working? This system was installed using the 0.5.1
ISO, and has the latest devel grimoire and runs sorcery 1.0.6.

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