[1044] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Some problems fixed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Oct 5 12:01:01 1995
To: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, pc-dialup@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Oct 1995 11:54:37 EDT."
<199510051554.LAA21015@tla.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 11:59:52 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
>> * There are some circumstances where libAL could put you in
>> too many groups (specifically, if you're in local groups
>> towards the end of the group file). This isn't going to
>> create an operational problem for the dialups, but I would
>> eventually like to make it more correct.
> I have seen xlogin do this under similar circumstances (at least for
> Solaris). However, in that case, the userfails to get their initial
> set of tokens. Why isn't that a problem here?
It's not a problem on the dialup because there won't be any local
groups towards the end of /etc/group (everything after the first few
groups will be added by Hesiod lookups).
xlogin shouldn't have this problem under NetBSD, since it uses a
different algorithm.
