Re: Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd in unstable!
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:13:10PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:57:15AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> > If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!!
> > Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs
> > for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.)
> >
> > I found this out the hard way. The simple fix if it's already happened to
> > you: copy the backup file "/etc/passwd.org" over top of the new file
> > "/etc/passwd".
>
> Crap - too late here :( How the heck did this work on maintainer's system?
By default, most uids in the password file match their gids, aside from
a couple of daemons, so I can imagine it being easy to miss.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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