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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kdesu belongs to nogroup?
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:38:33
Message-Id: 7573e9640601061229x6cb3b82bqc8a63fa3436d1179@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] kdesu belongs to nogroup? by Mick
1 On 1/6/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > Hi All,
3 >
4 > Quick question: which group is this meant to belong to? Is it safe to be
5 > like this:
6 > ====================================
7 > $ ls -la /usr/kde/3.4/bin/kdesud
8 > -rwxr-s--x 1 root nogroup 48016 Dec 21 10:41 /usr/kde/3.4/bin/kdesud
9 > ====================================
10 >
11 > I'm probably not doing this right, but the following command does not find
12 > kdesud - why is this?
13
14 Because "nogroup" is actually a group name. If kdesud had a gid that
15 was not in /etc/group, ls would show you the numeric id.
16
17 Basically, kdesud should have a gid that no user will ever be a part of.
18
19 -Richard
20
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[gentoo-user] Re: kdesu belongs to nogroup? Mick <michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk>