Re: Please verify these 2 OpenBSD Bugs (FAQ, adduser, login.conf)

[Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Mark Farquaad wrote:

> Thanks Matthias Kilian for this competent clarification!
> I think the behaviour of adduser mentioned in this post
> should be considered to be not quite self-evident or, to an 
> average user: *buggy*!
> Anyone think this should be posted to bugs@openbsd.org?
> 
> 
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 4:17pm, Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net> wrote:
> 
> > Once again, it is shown that careful reading is required. But, as it
> > seems, all questions posted by the OP are answered by the man 
> > pages su(1) and group(5).
> 
> Who's "OP"? If you're refering to me with "OP", no, not all questions
> posted by me are answered by the man pages su(1) and group(5)!
> 
> I asked if this behaviour of adduser is a bug or not.
> You basically told me that it's behaviour is "long standing behaviour",
> not wheather it's a bug or not, - or rather you didn't even look into
> it with the required depth - it seems now.

Come o,n I replied to your question if adduser(8) should add an entry to 
/etc/group for a primary group membership:

"No, there is no problem. This would violate long standing behavior. I 
repeat: this is not a bug."

I have been wrong in my explanation about su(1), confusing it in my mind 
with sudo(1), I'm sorry about that. But this has been corrected already. 
But again: primary group membership is not listed in /ect/group. su(1) is 
odd one out with respect to this. All these facts are documented.

	-Otto