NetBSD Problem Report #39419
From Wolfgang.Stukenbrock@nagler-company.com Wed Aug 27 10:51:38 2008
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:51:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: Wolfgang.Stukenbrock@nagler-company.com
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Subject: default group range cannot be specified for groupadd
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>Number: 39419
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: default group range cannot be specified for groupadd
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 27 10:55:00 +0000 2008
>Originator: Wolfgang Stukenbrock
>Release: NetBSD 4.0
>Organization:
Dr. Nagler & Company GmbH
>Environment:
System: NetBSD s401 4.0 NetBSD 4.0 (NSW-S401) #11: Wed Jul 30 21:13:34 CEST 2008 wgstuken@s012:/export/NetBSD-4.0/N+C-build/.OBJDIR_amd64/export/NetBSD-4.0/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/NSW-S401 amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
Most default paramters of the user management functions can be configured
in /etc/usermgmt.conf.
So the administrator can setup a range for new user-id's.
This is very usefull for environments where the "normal" users are
included by e.g. NIS and only some techinal users are setup in the local
configuration files.By setting up a range definition in usermgmt.conf and
using a different range in the NIS database conflicts can be avoided.
Accedently this is not possible for groups, because there
is no range definition for group-id's in any configuration file.
So during package installation new groups may be added using the
next free group-id starting at 1000. This may lead to conflicts with
the NIS-database, because the NIS-database cannot know what ID's are used
by some clients and theese ID's may become active in NIS at a later
time. This could be avoided by defining a default range to be used by
groupadd as already done for useradd.
>How-To-Repeat:
not relevant - enhancement-request
>Fix:
Add a new keyword to usermgmt.conf to add a group range definition.
The command groupadd should read the information from usermgmt.conf and
use it if present.
An other sollution may be a new file groupmgmt.conf, but I think it would
be better (and more consistent) to expand usermgmt.conf.
>Unformatted:
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