Re: Bug#47780: pinfo: Searches for a group named "nobody", should be "nogroup".
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>On 99-10-18 russell@coker.com.au wrote:
>> Package: pinfo
>> Version: 0.5.8-2
>> Severity: normal
>
>> When pinfo is run as root it gives the following error message:
>> Security warning: Unable to get GID of group called: nobody
>
>> It should be looking for a group names "nogroup".
>
>Thanks for the bug report. This is a real bug, but your solution is not
>very good. It would be better, if pinfo would look first for a group
>called nobody and if it does not find it, starts looking for a group
>called nogroup. So this would solve the bug. Is this okay for you?
I have CC'd this message to debian-devel as I think it's not an issue of what
is OK for me but what should be the correct way of doing it. I think that
the correct way is to search for nogroup, but I'll let the people on
debian-devel have the final word.
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