Re: /etc/group lossage

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Subject: Re: /etc/group lossage
From: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
Date: 19 Apr 1998 14:44:35 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 87bttx4hbw.fsf@ece.utexas.edu>
In-reply-to: Raul Miller's message of "Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:42:50 -0400"
References: <[🔎] 19980418174250.06829@hazel>

Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:

> Looking closer, I found a couple of packages (msqld and sudo)
> which updated /etc/group in what I would consider an insufficiently
> paranoid fashion.

No package should modify /etc/passwd or /etc/group directly (save
base-passwd).  They should call adduser, useradd, or groupadd to the
work.

I will file bug reports.

Guy

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