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Re: nogroup or nobody ?



On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:07:35PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:43:15AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > But we could inform the admin about this change, give them some time to
> > change all local configurations which involve a group nogroup instead of
> > nobody and then remove this group. I'm not very happy about the OpenBSD
> > approach of having two group names for the same purpose. Reducing it to
> > one, would in my opinion be better, but I will need to think more about
> > a sane transition plan first.
> 
> On OpenBSD, do they have the same group ID or are they different? If they're
> the same, who cares? It's just a name.

different.  nobody is the group for nobody.  nogroup is a group of its own.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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