[1.7] getgroups regression?

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Dec 4 23:04:00 GMT 2009


On 12/4/2009 5:48 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On further review, I found my 1.7 /etc/group was more than twice the size of 
> the 1.5 version; and all of that bulk came from duplicated entries.
[...]
> But that still makes me wonder - is there anything we are doing in a typical 
> install that might be accidentally inserting duplicate entries into /etc/group, 
> or is this something I managed to fubar all by myself way back when I first 
> created my side-by-side 1.5/1.7 installation (back before the transition was as 
> smooth as it is now)?

I also have duplicate entries in /etc/group in a 1.7 installation that I 
created last February.  But I have a more recent installation with no 
duplicate entries.  So whatever might have been wrong seems to have been 
fixed.

Ken

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