On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:13:10PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:57:15AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!! > > Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs > > for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.) > > > > I found this out the hard way. The simple fix if it's already happened to > > you: copy the backup file "/etc/passwd.org" over top of the new file > > "/etc/passwd". > > Crap - too late here :( How the heck did this work on maintainer's system?
By default, most uids in the password file match their gids, aside from a couple of daemons, so I can imagine it being easy to miss. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
