This one time, at band camp, Michael Banck said: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:09:35PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier wrote: > > 3) UID==GID was questioned to be a requrement, probably because it was > > seen that it isn't be enforced, but it can be of great help if you > > are looking at a filesystem (removable drive) without knowing the > > corresponding passwd/groups file. > > > > So maybe it is sane that UID==GID is a requirement, and its only an > > adduser bug when it does not skip IDs that have been taken by non > > UPG groups when creating users, and thus does not deliver that > > requirement. > > I think it is not sane to make this a requirement for UPG, but it would probably > be sufficient proof of UPG. > > Seems worthwhile to change adduser how you suggest to me, is there a bug > filed to this end? adduser has had bugs filed in the past asking for uid to be equal to gid by default, and I have so far rejected them as not worth the complexity for the aesthetic pleasure of having numbers match. Is there some problem with username == primary group name? Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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