Re: Debian 1.3 ignores more than 2 "groups".
"Pedro Sanchez" <psanchez@nortel.ca> writes:
>
> However, when user-name logs in and types "groups" he gets,
>
> $ groups
> user-name dialout
>
> Where is dip? In fact, I tested by adding user-name to more groups but to
> my surprise "groups" always returns the same two groups!
My first guess would be that this is due to corruption in the
"/etc/group" file somewhere between the group "dialout" (which works)
and the group "dip" (which doesn't). Depending on the C library
version, a bad line may cause the remainder of the file to be ignored.
Look carefully at the "/etc/group" file between "dialout" and "dip".
Make sure every line is valid, that no colon is missing or misplaced.
For example, early versions of Debian had the following error in the
"/etc/group" file:
sudo:*:27
:audio:*:29:
dip:*:30:
The colon at the start of the "audio" line should have been at the end
of the "sudo" line.
Kevin <buhr@stat.wisc.edu>
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