Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:28:46PM -0800, John W. Krahn wrote:
>>
>> Since you are only reading from /etc/group you are not picking up the primary
>> group stored in /etc/passwd.
>
> Singling out the primary group wasn't a requirement for the Perl script,
> as far as I recall. If I'm mistaken, then yeah, you might want to check
> /etc/passwd for the primary group. If not, you'll get the primary group
> along with the rest of them from /etc/group (but it won't be identified
> as any different from the rest of them).
>
> At least, that's how it works here.
According to the FreeBSD group(5) man page[1]:
<QUOTE>
A user is automatically in a group if that group was speci-
fied in their /etc/passwd entry and does not need to be added to that
group in the group file.
</QUOTE>
And on my current system (SuSE 9.3) that is the case as well, which is why I
said that you have to get the primary group from the /etc/passwd file.
[1]
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=group&apropos=0&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+7-current&format=html
John
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