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- From: jbthiel@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (John B. Thiel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Symbolic group names - working?
- Message-ID: <45753@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 10:35:14 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ogicse.45753
- Sender: jbthiel@ogicse.ogi.edu
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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- The group commands (chown, chgrp, groups, etal) on my
- system neither accept nor display group names for groups
- other than 0(root), but numeric ids work fine.
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- Is this known/correct behavior under Linux? What must I
- set to have the symbolic names (ie from /etc/group) recognized?
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- 0.98.3, mount patch, tcp
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