PROBLEM WITH MKUSER - SECURITY
W. Paul Zola
paulz at sco.COM
Tue May 7 11:48:50 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr30.064959.1532 at netcom.COM> bobb at netcom.COM (Bob Beaulieu) writes:
}I have a client that had a lot of users (80+) in the same group "group1"
}and added '\' to allow entry of ALL of these users because of limits in
}line lengths.
[description of the resulting disaster deleted]
}
}bobb
}
Like the man says, don't *do* that! You should never use
continuation characters in /etc/group: nothing that manipulates
it understands them. Instead use multiple lines with the same
group name:
group1::60:user1,user2,user3
group1::60:user4,user5,user6
This should work just fine.
-
Paul Zola Support Technical Lead, Operating System
paulz at sco.COM
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