On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:25:21AM -0000, Morrison, John wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:22:50PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >> At 05:58 PM 11/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: > >>> What about generating a root group with mkgroup -l by default? > >>> > >>> root:S-1-5-32-544:0: > >>> > >>> The question is then, should it *also* generate an administrators > >>> entry > >>> > >>> Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544: > >>> > >>> or should it generate the "root" entry *instead* of the > >>> administrators entry? > >> > >> Obviously I am for maintaining compatibility with existing > >> installations (544 must work), some of which still have Everybody > >> with gid 0 (using 0 as mapping to S-1-5-32-544 is risky). > > > > I think we should do the affected users a favor and remove the > > Everyone entry from /etc/passwd and /etc/group when we find one. > > This should be done by a script in the base-files or base-passwd > > package as a regular job. > > Part of /etc/profile? or put it in /etc/profile.d/?
Eh, no. I was thinking about a postinstall script, which checks for Everyone (S-1-0-0) in /etc/passwd and /etc/group and removes these entries silently. The same script could add the "root" entry to /etc/group. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.