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  3. From: andrewr@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,alt.security,comp.security.misc
  5. Subject: /etc/group & wheel (was: Re: Ultrix UPGRADE npasswd)
  6. Message-ID: <8311@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
  7. Date: 26 Aug 92 00:54:51 GMT
  8. References: <PCL.92Aug7163245@black.oxford.ac.uk> <1992Aug11.180059.371@crc.ricoh.com> <YPCPB0KW@cc.swarthmore.edu>
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  10. Reply-To: andrewr@itd.adelaide.edu.au
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  12. Organization: Information Technology Division, Adelaide University, Australia
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  15.  
  16. In article <YPCPB0KW@cc.swarthmore.edu>, hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
  17.  
  18. +I was in a BSD mode for a while and attempted to change the name of group 0
  19. +to "wheel".  However, I found that lots of Ultrix installation programs
  20. +(like setld stuff, /usr/bin/install, etc) rely on group 0 being "system".
  21. +So I changed it back to "system".  Sigh.
  22.  
  23.     Well, it actually relies on there being a group "system" whose
  24. GID is 0 - subtle distiction, but you can do the following:
  25.  
  26. wheel:*:0:root,andrewr
  27. system:*:0:
  28.  
  29.     And setld, etc, go looking for group "system", and it's GID 0,
  30. so it's all nice an happy.
  31.  
  32. Hope this helps,
  33.         Andrew.
  34.  
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