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Re: Did the 7.7 DECMips group fix get backed out?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Sun Jan 8 17:26:56 1995
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 17:25:51 -0500
To: wdc@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
> It's just me running the patch release now. I am afraid that if the
> code goes out to the wider world, many librarians will be affected.
It turns out that this is not a new bug, and has nothing to do with
recent xlogin changes or the patch release. It's just that this is the
first time you noticed the problem.
When the new group limit was imposed for xlogin, it was *not* imposed
for /bin/login. This was an oversight on my part, the result of doing
something someone told me to do without thinking about it thoroughly,
and not having a login library.
In any case, you wound up with so many groups in your /etc/group file
as a result of logging in with /bin/login, not as a result of logging
in via xlogin. xlogin properly limits the groups.
> Interestingly, I DO have a /etc/group.local file which has me in only
> 11 groups.
/etc/{passwd,shadow,group}.local are used to clean up (by over-copying)
their respective working files at reboot and reactivate times.
Craig
