On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:52:55PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 20/01/02 Colin Watson did speaketh:
> > Well, quite, but the question you snipped was about why the maintainer
> > didn't notice it. Although I occasionally test packages I build on, say,
> > my workstation at work, I'll proba
On 20/01/02 Colin Watson did speaketh:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:10:40PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>
> Well, quite, but the question you snipped was about why the maintainer
> didn't notice it. Although I occasionally test packages I build on, say,
> my workstation at work, I'll probabl
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:10:40PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 20/01/02 Colin Watson did speaketh:
> > 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.
Well, quite, but
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
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 productio
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:13:10PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:57:15AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> > If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!!
> > Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs
> > for users in
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:57:15AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!!
> Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs
> for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.)
>
> I
On 20-Jan-2002 Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!!
> Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs
> for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.)
>
> I found this out the hard wa
On Sunday 20 January 2002 2:57 pm, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!!
> Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs
> for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.)
Hehe, cheers.
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> I found this out the hard way. The simple fix if it's already happened to
> you: copy the backup file "/etc/passwd.org" over top of the new file
> "/etc/passwd".
You should do this to shadow and group as well and readd any users that
may have been a
If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!!
Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs
for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.)
I found this out the hard way. The simple fix if it's already happened to
you
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