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...
