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Thanks for your research. What we would really like is a run-time test to
determine if passwords are necessary. For example, Debian configures
itself without them but they are necessary.
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, John Nemeth wrote:
> I've examined every machine to which I currently have access and
> this is what I found:
>
> machines that always have passwords
> - SunOS 4.x
> - ULTRIX 4.x
> - NetBSD 1.x
>
> machines that don't have passwords
> - SunOS 5.x
> - Slackware Linux
>
> I know that due to the nature of Linux, userland can vary (sometimes
> wildly) between the different distributions; but, are you sure that
> Denebian Linux must have passwords, or are you just assuming this
> because it is the convention?
On Debian Linux, if there is no password, then newgrp will place the user
in the new group without any prompt. Are you sure this is not the case on
Slackware?
>
> } /etc/group i.e. a * in the second field of each line. In case you
> } haven't yet discovered, CSuite uses that field for "supergroups",
> } effectively creating a hierarchy of group control.
>
> Could you elaborate on this?
the setuid-root program lynxexec/edgroup allows a member of a supergroup
to add and delete members of a subgroup. This is used in the IP
maintenance and admin-bin/priv-edit and lynxcgi/priv-access
I think there is some documentation on this in Beta -- David Potter?
David Trueman,
Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net
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