[Adduser-devel] Bug#496683: Bug#496683: adduser assigns wrong group if setgid=set in parent

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Wed Nov 23 10:32:13 UTC 2011


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:10:30PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Bob Goldberg said:
> > The home directory that adduser creates does not properly inherit the
> > group name from its parent (when setgid is set).
> > ie: In the adduser.conf file, I have DIR_MODE="2770", and the parent
> > directory in which the user's dir. is created is mode=2771.  When
> > adduser creates the home dir. its GID is set to the users' group, not
> > the parent dir's group.  If DIR_MODE="0770", the users' dir. is not
> > setgid=yes
> 
> Parse error.  Can you explain what you mean?

Hi Bob, can you please try to answer the questiont hat Stephen asked
three years ago?

I plan on closing this bug by the end of 2011 if you don't explain.

Greetings
Marc

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