On 3 Jul 2002, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 08:00, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > This isn't really a bug per se, but... > > > > Red Hat seems to want root's group to be ORroot, not root. (Does > > anybody know if there is a real rationale for this? Given that either > > one of these is just a label used in a mapping to the gid, which is > > where all functionality resides, it struck me as being yet another > > annoying/idiotic/pointless Red Hatism when I first saw it.) > > > > > > Rob, > There is no such group ORroot > > We need to look at your system. It may have been cracked. No, this is probably a legacy from some previous incarnation of my systems, although I would have sworn that this was a red hat-ism from some years ago (although I suppose it might have survived from a VERY old version of Slackware). I remember it appearing in one of the linux distro's because it was very odd and broke all sorts of stuff, but instead of fighting it I just acquiesced and it probably became buried in my /etc/files (I install my own /etc/files over whatever RH has installed clean, since I don't use NIS at home). Well then, as they say, "Never Mind"... I'll just fix /etc/group everywhere. It will actually be a real pleasure to see ORroot go away anyway. rgb > > -sv > > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
