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Re: id -d invocation



On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 04:32:43AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org> writes:
> > According to the boot-floppies todo list, a failing id -d
> > invocation is causing problems with modconf and debootstrap.  I
> > searched the mailing list archives, but couldn't find any more
> > information.  Could someone please point me to the right place?
> 
> Oy.  What provides ID on the root system?  busybox I assume.  We just
> need to slap a big heavy bug on busybox (or whatever package provides
> 'id' on the root filesystem) and move on.

I don't think that is correct.  My test with GNU id yields the
following:

$ id -d
id: invalid option -- d
Try `id --help' for more information.
$ 

Do you know what program is calling id with that option, because
it seems that should be fixed, rather than busybox.

Matt

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