Richard Fish wrote:

> On 1/6/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Quick question:  which group is this meant to belong to?  Is it safe to
>> be like this:
>> ====================================
>>  $ ls -la /usr/kde/3.4/bin/kdesud
>> -rwxr-s--x  1 root nogroup 48016 Dec 21 10:41 /usr/kde/3.4/bin/kdesud
>> ====================================
>>
>> I'm probably not doing this right, but the following command does not
>> find kdesud - why is this?
> 
> Because "nogroup" is actually a group name.  If kdesud had a gid that
> was not in /etc/group, ls would show you the numeric id.
> 
> Basically, kdesud should have a gid that no user will ever be a part of.

Thanks.
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Regards,
Mick

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