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- From: rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU (Richard Gooch)
- Subject: Re: HELP: Problems with groups
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.002357.9270@rp.CSIRO.AU>
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- Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics/Australia Telescope National Facility
- References: <4fLl1ga00iV105jsUP@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:23:57 GMT
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- In article <4fLl1ga00iV105jsUP@andrew.cmu.edu>, Peter William Wieland <pw1r+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >
- > I've been having problems getting the user directory's (home/peter,
- > home/alex, etc...) group set properly. Linux seems to change them back
- > on the fly.
- >
- > I've made a new group using groupadd, made the new users using useradd
- > and then tried to chgrp their home directories. The group changes and
- > shows up properly when I do an ls -l, but after about 30 seconds, the
- > group is changed to 232 or 233 (neither of which exists in /etc/group).
- > I've noticed, however, that the group won't change back if that user is
- > logged in on another console, but once you logout the group changes
- > shortly after.
- >
- > I've tried syncing immediately afterwards but the group still changes
- > thirty seconds (or so) later. I've tried adding the group by hand to
- > /etc/group and adding the users by hand to /etc/passwd but it won't work
- > right.
-
- Let me guess... The GID of the group you have is over 255... If you created
- a group "people" with GID 1234, then after a while (after the next sync, I
- bet), it appears as GID 210
- The Minix filesystem has 8 bit GIDs. The extended filesystem is supposed to
- have longer GIDs... Use an extended fs partition (number 83) and use mkefs
- (NOT mkfs !) and the problem should go away (in theory).
-
- Regards,
-
- Richard Gooch....
-