[2041] in testers
Re: Error in setting group list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ezra Peisach)
Mon Jun 8 13:50:21 1992
To: Derrick Kong <starflt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 08 Jun 92 13:40:51 -0400.
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 92 13:49:20 EDT
From: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU>
One of the problems with hydrox-cookie is that PUBLIC is set to false,
and no /etc/group.local file exists. Because of this, old turds sit in
the /etc/group file forever if the machine is rebooted or other
failures. I logged into the machine and found myself
in 36 groups because of this. I didn't see starflt in it, but he may
have removed his extra entries.
The fix would be to create a clean /etc/group.local with the essentials.
Ezra
