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slink to potato checklist



Maybe tonight's test should be a slink install followed by a potato
upgrade.

So far I have:

1) see what happens to /root permissions along the way

2) create a long groupname as slink and see if we can add a new user to it
as potato

Anybody care to add an item?

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Krzysztof Adamski wrote:

> No nis, no nis+, no nfs. Simple standolone (on a network) box.
> 
> K
> 
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> 
> > Is this potato system hooked to any nis or nis+ domains, or is nfs used?
> > I think if any of those three are "yes", then group names are limited to
> > 16 characters.
> > 
> > I think I remember reading this in the Sun documentation about two weeks
> > ago. Please someone correct me if I am wrong. :)
> > 
> > * Krzysztof Adamski <kadamski@netsurf.net> [000228 10:28]:
> > > There is a difference between slink and potato, if you use usernames
> > > longer then 16 chars then the addgroup part of adduser fails. On slink I
> > > can have groups at least 31 chars (maybe longer) but only 16 on potato.

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ Paul Wade                         Greenbush Technologies Corporation +
+ mailto:paulwade@greenbush.com              http://www.greenbush.com/ +
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