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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: /etc/group
From:       Narvi <narvi () haldjas ! folklore ! ee>
Date:       1996-07-30 17:01:15
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On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Charlie ROOT wrote:

> I am having a problem with groups in FreeBSD.  I have a group 'user' and 
> i seem to have broke it.  I think itsbecause the line buffer in 
> /etc/group cannot exceed 1024 characters.
> 
> So i tried adding a new group called 'user' also, with different GID but 
> i get an error when i run the adduser script along wiht other errors.
> 
> ex...
> inner /home/staff/costa>adduser
> (c) Copyright 1995 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
> Use option ``-silent'' if you don't want see all warnings & questions.
> 
> 	Check /etc/shells
> 	Check /etc/master.passwd
> 	User news: illegal shell: ``/nonexistent''
> 	User xten: illegal shell: ``/nonexistent''
> 	User ftp: illegal shell: ``/dev/null''
> 	Check /etc/group
> 	Groupname exist twice: user:1109 ->  user:101

Of course it should complain if there are two groups with the same name - 
the mapping between names and IDs should be one to one.

> 
> How do i resolve the problem?  Right now i addusers into their own group 
> (jim:*:1239:jim) and its OK. 

And you don't want it to stay that way? It does sometimes have some 
plusses...
 
> 

Why do you want to keep the users in only one group anyways? How about
spliting them between several groups (users1, users2, ...)?

	Sander

> How do i clean up this mess??
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Costa 
> 
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