Hello Eric,
I am attaching a "diff -u oldfile newfile" output against the 5.93 script.
I consider the change only a very slight one, so (I hope) no copyright
assignment will be necessary.
Best regards
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Reinhold Bader on 1/13/2006 8:31 AM:
>>> Dear coreutils maintainers,
>>>
>>> I am attaching a modified version of /usr/bin/groups which allows to
>>> suppress
>>> errors resulting from the occurrence of artificial GIDs which are used
>>> for authentification purposes. These errors cause difficulties e. g. in
>>> Tcl
>>> scripts using groups via exec.
>>>
>>> May I ask for inclusion in the standard distribution tree?
>>> The basis used was the 5.2.1 coreutils release as used in Novell's SLES9
>>> distribution.
>
>
> Thanks for the ideas. However, could you please regenerate this as a
> unified diff against a more current distribution (the current stable
> release is 5.93, and the CVS development is progressing towards an
> eventual 6.0 release), rather than as a straight file? Also, your changes
> may be large enough that it would require copyright assignment, if it is
> indeed worth applying the patch. Without anything to compare against, it
> is not obvious what you are trying to add.
>
> --
> Life is short - so eat dessert first!
>
> Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dr. Reinhold Bader
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--- groups 2006-01-16 11:10:41.205278000 +0100
+++ groups_noerr 2006-01-16 11:14:06.557536000 +0100
@@ -20,12 +20,16 @@
# Make sure we get GNU id, if possible; also allow
# it to be somewhere else in PATH if not installed yet.
+#
+# LRZ fix: add switch to ignore errors induced by artificial GIDs without
+# /etc/group entry.
PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH
usage="Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [USERNAME]...
- --help display this help and exit
- --version output version information and exit
+ --help display this help and exit
+ --version output version information and exit
+ --noinvgid ignore invalid GIDs and suppress error
Same as id -Gn. If no USERNAME, use current process.
@@ -40,6 +44,7 @@
fail=0
+ignore=0
case $# in
1 )
case "z${1}" in
@@ -47,6 +52,9 @@
echo "$usage" || fail=1; exit $fail;;
z--version )
echo "$version" || fail=1; exit $fail;;
+ z--noinvgid )
+ ignore=1
+ shift;;
* ) ;;
esac
;;
@@ -54,8 +62,18 @@
esac
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
- id -Gn
- fail=$?
+ if [ $ignore -eq 0 ] ; then
+ id -Gn
+ fail=$?
+ else
+ groups=$(id -Gn -- $(whoami))
+ status=$?
+ if test $status = 0; then
+ echo $groups
+ else
+ fail=$status
+ fi
+ fi
else
for name in "$@"; do
groups=`id -Gn -- $name`
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