Debian bug report logs - #1007, boring messages

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 21:54:22 -0700
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From: grantbow@netcom.com (Grant R. Bowman)

Package: adduser
Version: 1.93

After installing the base configuration, the script that runs during the
first root login (.bash_profile?) created users that each have their own
group id (GID).  Their permissions on their home directory are set at 755.

I don't know if this is what is intended or not.  I thought users were
usually added to a "users" group.  I could imagine this being a a bad
default on larger systems and a surprise to others.


I am using Debian 0.93R5 alpha, kernel version 1.2.1 and libc 4.6.27.  I
have installed ONLY the base system for testing purposes.

Cheers,

--
-- Grant R. Bowman                                AdvoTech
-- <grantbow@netcom.com>         Computer and Software Asset Manaagement

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Subject: Bug#1007: New Users GID=UID
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>
> Package: adduser
> Version: 1.93
>
> After installing the base configuration, the script that runs during the
> first root login (.bash_profile?) created users that each have their own
> group id (GID).  Their permissions on their home directory are set at 755.
>
> I don't know if this is what is intended or not.  I thought users were
> usually added to a "users" group.  I could imagine this being a a bad
> default on larger systems and a surprise to others.
>
>
> I am using Debian 0.93R5 alpha, kernel version 1.2.1 and libc 4.6.27.  I
> have installed ONLY the base system for testing purposes.

Look at /etc/adduser.conf, it's an option. I prefer having users with
a users group so I change mine to that.

Andrew

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Andrew Howell				               andrew@it.com.au
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At 1:15 AM 6/16/95, Andrew Howell wrote:
>>
>> Package: adduser
>> Version: 1.93
>>
>> After installing the base configuration, the script that runs during the
>> first root login (.bash_profile?) created users that each have their own
>> group id (GID).  Their permissions on their home directory are set at 755.
>>
>> I don't know if this is what is intended or not.  I thought users were
>> usually added to a "users" group.  I could imagine this being a a bad
>> default on larger systems and a surprise to others.
>>
>>
>> I am using Debian 0.93R5 alpha, kernel version 1.2.1 and libc 4.6.27.  I
>> have installed ONLY the base system for testing purposes.
>
>Look at /etc/adduser.conf, it's an option. I prefer having users with
>a users group so I change mine to that.

Andrew,
        Maybe I should have reported this bug on the base system instead of
your package directly.  The default for installing the base system (before
users get a chance to change it) is to set it up GID=UID.
        Perhaps this needs to change where it's being called from, but I
can't find the package that installs the original .bash_profile that is run
to create these users and has all the root help text in it.  I grepped all
the files in my /var/lib/dpkg/info/ area, and I looked at the script itself
but it doesn't have any comments regarding it's creation.  The real
question is a matter of, by default, how the users should be set up before
a new sysadmin gets a chance to change things.  I will let you know if I
find out where this script comes from.
        It's interesting too to see how this original script (I think) it
checkes for a /root/.configured and tries to delete itself.

Regards,

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-- Grant R. Bowman                                AdvoTech
-- <grantbow@netcom.com>         Computer and Software Asset Manaagement

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Subject: Bug#1007: Info received (was Bug#1007: New Users GID=UID)
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