RE: [PLUG] are there any forbidden group names? or numbers?

["George Gallen" <ggallen@slackinc.com>]

didn't know about getent or id.

id actually was more helpful.

as below:
uid=500(george) gid=100 groups=100,0(root),12(mail),31(sysprog1),32(sysprog2),50
(ftp),51(smmsp),54(lock),99(nobody),21,554,555,600

I started putting my name in all the groups to find out which one it stopped at,
Until I can come up with something, I'll put all the system groups up front, and
leave the hugh one at the end.

It seems to stop finding group names at one group name
  one that has about 50 or 60 names in the group. All
  separated by commas, no weird characters.

the getent didn't show anything too different that cating

Thanks
George

Guess RH 8.0 is a more demanding on group files than 7.2 was....


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Stephen Gran
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:53 PM
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] are there any forbidden group names? or numbers?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:29:11PM -0400, George Gallen said:
> > anything that can't be used?
> 
> That depends on the frontend.  User space utilities like addgroup and
> groupadd do forbid some characters, but the lower level c 
> function calls
> don't.  They may truncate, but they don't forbid.  This is 
> probably not
> you problem, unless you have something really, really odd (like a
> punycode character) in there.  Look at overlap.  Post output 
> of commands
> that actually look up groups (not higher level policy layer 
> level things
> like addgroup, low-level things like getent or id).
> 
> Take care,
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