Bug#295680: libc6: getgrname returns a result that doesn't belong to /etc/group
On 2005-06-20 15:58:00 +0200, GOMBAS Gabor wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:54:38PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > This means that Debian (in particular) won't necessarily integrate
> > nicely in a foreign network.
>
> That's true for Solaris, AIX, Mac OS X etc. as well.
That's why I said "in particular". I don't know how these systems
set up gids, but a system vendor who would really want to avoid
these problems (knowing the local NIS policy) would be able to do
that.
> > There are at least 2 valid reasons that
> > it may be difficult to follow this rule:
> >
> > * The sysadmins cannot support every OS and cannot know every
> > possible conflict.
>
> Yes they should. It's their job. NIS is about _central_ management,
> which includes the list of supported configurations. If your
> configuration is not on that list, then you're on your own, and
> cannot expect things to 'just work'.
Here the users choose the OS they want, so no, the sysadmins cannot
support every OS.
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