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Re: [PATCH] Fix for nss/db-Makefile
> From: smurf@noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
> Newsgroups: dist.glibc
> Date: 20 Dec 1998 14:28:32 +0100
> Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> writes:
> > + @chgrp 0 $@
> > [...]
> > + @echo "has been set to be readable only by root. You may want"
> > + @echo "to make it readable by the \`shadow' group depending"
> > + @echo "on your configuration."
>
> What'd be wrong with
>
> > + @chgrp shadow $@ 2>/dev/null || ( chgrp 0 $@ ; echo ... )
>
> instead?
That's a bit scary. What if there is a user named `shadow' with
accompanying group?
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Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>