From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) Subject: Re: Weird group problems under .99.3 Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 05:18:49 GMT
In article <48.2B574831@purplet.demon.co.uk> jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis) writes:
>* In message <1993Jan14.021159.19619@colorado.edu>, Drew Eckhardt said:
>
>DE> In article <1993Jan14.011414.15521@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
>DE> wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern) writes:
>DE> >I'm experiencing some problems with group permissions after having
>DE> >upgraded to kernel version 0.99.3.
>
>DE> It is. The shadow password package does not support BSD
>DE> suplemental groups -
>
>This is not true. Shadow does support the supplemental list. The problem is
>that it's ifdef'd NGROUPS and the includes used do not pick up the Linux
>NGROUPS definition. I believe this was included in the patches I sent to the
>original author and Ed shortly after Ed put the source on the Linux ftp
>sites.
>
> This may have changed with the 2.3.3 compiler. I'll check it...
>
> Mike
>
Can someone verify this. I just realized that I went to pains to make sure
that the NGROUPS was defined. I guess I don't fully understand groups, but
when I do a "groups" command as root I get:
root bin sys adm mail info wheel daemon disk shadow
Can someone else verify or contradict this? I had some problems with
id (it doesn't work, because the NGROUPS wasn't compiled in), but groups
reports the correct amount (after I had hacked it that is).
Also, people complain about no documentation with shadow passwords.
In the original release I mentioned just do:
more /install/installed/shadow
It will list all the files installed. Pay attention to all the man pages
listed. Then go read them.
Peter