Matthew Burgess wrote: > FWIW, if upstream believe it shouldn't be on by default, then we should > follow their recommendation and drop the optional 'grpconv' command from > the book. I have no idea how common shadowed groups are out in the wild > though.
AFAIK, the only time that gshadow is used is when a user executes newgrp or sg. That is only necessary if a user is creating a new file as a member of one of their non-default groups. The equivalent method would be to jsut create a file and do a chgrp on the created file. Adding a group password to this process seems pretty exotic to me and I suspect its use would be quite rare, hence the omission by default. I would recommend going with the developer's approach and leaving this for some trivia^H^H^H^H^H^H certification test. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
