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From: brian@cimage.com (Brian Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix utilities and segmentation faults
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.153528.23914@cimage.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 15:35:28 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.013456.5959@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Reply-To: brian@dgsi.UUCP (Brian Kelley)
Organization: Cimage Corp, Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <1991Mar8.013456.5959@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpsrk@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Stuart Kemp) writes:
>
>These seem to go hand in hand! :-)
>
>Using Ultrix 4.1.
>
>   id
>     (if there is no entry for your GID in the /etc/group file)

We've experienced and reported this one.  It took the support person well 
over one half hour to reproduce the problem.  It was pathetic.  I had to
walk her through it step by step and she still managed to trash the system 
she was trying to test it on (creating an account with a gid not in the
group file was evidently a major undertaking - for technical reasons)...



>-Stuart Kemp
>
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