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Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released
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Didi |
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Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released |
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Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:23:41 +0200 |
> If by "unknown" you mean nameless, that's not what the patch does.
> Such a patch would not even have been considered.
I agree that hiding this information in some cases might not be
optimal, but the main problem is that through this the 'groups'
command becomes utterly useless and confused quite a lot of users.
$ groups
users id: cannot find name for group ID 1091323188
1091323188
further
$ id -Gn
users id: cannot find name for group ID 1091323188
1091323188
Because of this I get many scripts that scan /etc/group and
/etc/passwd in a loop and when I ask why they don't use 'grous' or
'id' I get "Ahh this has been broken for a long time" or "Somehow my
computer is broken".
Is there a way of maybe instead of giving an error message to give
back a pag name. My intent was not to hide the number it was to hide
the error because people think their systems are broken even if there
are not.
I can see the conflict here between users and sysadmins. Does someone
know if there is a way to find out if the group is a pag group or not.
Then I could write a version that still shows the group number but
suppresses the error. Would that be OK?
Cheers Didi
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- coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/19
- Message not available
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/20
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Russ Allbery, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Davor Ocelic, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/20
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released,
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- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH, 2008/04/21
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/21
- retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Jim Meyering, 2008/04/22
- Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Adam Megacz, 2008/04/22
- Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Jim Meyering, 2008/04/23
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR), 2008/04/25
- Re: [OpenAFS] Re: retaining AFS-specific nameless group IDs (PAG) in `id' and `groups', Russ Allbery, 2008/04/25
- coreutils-6.11 released, Elbert Pol, 2008/04/20
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Jim Meyering, 2008/04/21
- Re: coreutils-6.11 released, Elbert Pol, 2008/04/21