Drake Wilson <dr...@begriffli.ch> wrote: > Quoth Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org>, on 2010-05-15 14:40:05 -0700: >> You don't need to detect UPG setups with 100% reliability; you can >> just do the following:
>> 1. If there a possibility of this being a UPG setup: >> 2. If this user's group has the same name and GID as the user's name and >> UID: > Hrmbl. I have existing Debian systems that use UPG with UIDs and GIDs > decidedly non-matching. It only takes one extra addgroup without a > corresponding adduser in the default configuration to make the IDs go > out of sync, [...] That matches my personal experience. argenau:~# addgroup blah Adding group `blah' (GID 1005) ... Done. argenau:~# adduser nongidmatch Adding user `nongidmatch' ... Adding new group `nongidmatch' (1006) ... Adding new user `nongidmatch' (1005) with group `nongidmatch' ... [...] Part 2 the heuristic could be changed to "names of group and user are identical and user is the only member of the group". cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/p2h4c7-3a3....@argenau.downhill.at.eu.org
