On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/09/14 17:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > on my f20 system, perusing the account-related commands and ran
> > across the "groupmems" command, whose man page reads:
> >
> > "SETUP
> > The groupmems executable should be in mode 2770 as user root and in group groups. The system administrator can
> > add users to group groups to allow or disallow them using the groupmems utility to manage their own group
> > membership list.
> >
> > $ groupadd -r groups
> > $ chmod 2770 groupmems
> > $ chown root.groups groupmems
> > $ groupmems -g groups -a gk4"
> >
> > currently, /usr/sbin/groupmems has the following properties:
> >
> > # ls -l /usr/sbin/groupmems
> > -rwxr-x---. 1 root root 56960 Jul 26 2013 /usr/sbin/groupmems
> > #
> >
> > so how should i interpret the man page? should groupmems be setgid?
> > or is the man page suggesting how the reader might set it to setgid
> > for further customization? the way the man page is worded seems
> > ambiguous.
>
> You should interpret the man page to say.... *If* you want to give
> users the ability to administer their own group membership list then
> follow the instructions in the "SETUP" section.
>
> By default, this feature is not enable, thus it is not released with
> mode 2770 set.
i thought as much, which means that the man page is still
confusingly worded and, IMHO, still merits a BZ report.
pedantically yours,
rday
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