OK, I've figured it out. adduser modifies /etc/group apparently, and
relatively significantly. I was able to fix all my problems by looking
at Octavio's /etc/group, and adding the groups that looked like they
were missing. In the future, I will *not* use adduser, and I would
recommend that Debian have this application not be in the default path
or some substitute that issues a warning. Regardless, I have placed
/etc/ under source control using mercurial so that I can roll back
files and compare differences after utilities go in and modify things.
Thanks Octavio!
On 7/26/07, Rick Spillane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, this is really helpful!
On 7/25/07, Octavio Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:46:15 -0700, Rick Spillane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > OK. So I investigated what statoverride is, and its a list of names
> > that can be used to install packages under. I checked
> > /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride, and it seems as though there is indeed a
> > name 'root' in there, thus doubling my confusion. My guess is that the
> > there was once a root group in /etc/group, however it is no longer
> > there (I checked). Could someone post an /etc/group so I can try to
> > piece back together my /etc/group? I think this is the core of my
> > problems.
>
> Sorry for not posting to the list.
>
> --
> Octavio.
>
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