That's expected, and the reason why groups defined by the administrator(s)
typically start in the 500 range.

Michael

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Michael Viron
Core Systems Administration Team
Simple End User Linux

At 06:29 PM 5/15/2002 +1200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>It may have been the "setup" update from Mandrake Update that overwrote
>a group value in the /etc/group, but something did about the time I ran
>Mandrake Update.
>
>Namely, the group file had "staff" with value 50, instead of the
>standard "ftp" (for legacy reasons), but when Mandrake Update was run,
>the staff group was overwritten to be ftp.  This may have been what
>caused it to lockup (fortunately the members of the group were
>preserved, so it was not hard to fix).
>
>Is this expected or a bug?
>
>Thanks,
>Damon 
>
>
>
>
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