Subject: Re: Adding a users group to /etc/group (Was: CVS commit: basesrc)
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/29/2000 17:10:35
David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org> writes:
> > Arg, you now hardcoded the group to a fixed number.
> >
> > Let the admin who use that script decide which number he wants to
> > use.
> >
> > Please back that out.
>
> Without a users group the default useradd will fail. Having
> 'useradd bob' fail with 'useradd: group users not found' is
> pretty lame.
Fine, David. Please discuss this in public for a while and get
consensus. Don't go off doing something like this without getting some
general sense of what people thing FIRST.
For the moment, could you back it out?
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Perry Metzger perry@piermont.com
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