Re: Bug#581434: UPG and the default umask
Drake Wilson <drake@begriffli.ch> wrote:
> Quoth Don Armstrong <don@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
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