18 Oct
1999
18 Oct
'99
5:32 p.m.
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Robert L. Millner wrote:
t> Or you can use different group names with the same gid and everything will t> work fine. This is what we do. ;) We use NIS for everything.
The degeneracy state of group.bygid map should be causing you subtle problems somewhere.
You are correct, the group.bygid is broken, but to my knowledge very few applications use the group.bygid to look up users belonging to a particular group. We don't have any problems with it that I know of, and the scheme operates for many years.
Tom