Re: Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd in unstable!
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:10:40PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 20/01/02 Colin Watson did speaketh:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:13:10PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Only on personal systems. I've found that most production systems with
> large numbers of users don't put people in their own groups, they use
> groups for the purpose intended. At my work, we average about 200
> people per group.
Yeap - or a University with group student :) But then they wouldn't be
using unstable for their login servers anyway.
- Adam
PS. cp the backup files restored functionality so at least
that is good...
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