Re: /etc/group lossage
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 02:44:35PM -0700, Guy Maor wrote:
> 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.
msqld will only modify /etc/group when the needed group is missing.
Unfortunately the group was missing for a long time as the passwd/group
maintainer forgot my request and the pkg got a new maintainer.
Regards,
Joey
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