[Savannah-hackers] Re: /etc/group fucked up

[Vincent Caron]

Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Loic Dachary <address@hidden> a tapoté :
>
> >         While testing a rewrite of /usr/local/bin/cvssh in perl I ran
> > into a badly fucked up /etc/group. Entries following the anoncvs group
> > were very ill formated. I removed them since they apparently come from
> > a wrong insertion of login names instead of proper groups. The previous
> > file is /etc/group-fucked-up-2003-12-02 for diagnostic.
>
>
> Some strange errors occured when the sv_user group was running. This
> script does not write to /etc/group directly but call the patched
> usermod. 
>
> I'm afraid that this problem is related to our very very non standard
> big groups.

I'm maybe going to say something not pertinent, but wouldn't it be 
possible to evaluate a LDAP support to manage all these users and groups 
? It seems that we're pushing the old flat files to their limit. 
Packages 'libpam-ldap' and 'libnss-ldap' support that I believe. This 
would also be very useful for the frontend since we would have a central 
user/group structure rather than a DB-to-filesystem sync problem. The 
only trouble is that the current LDAP server in Woody (slapd) drags GTK+ 
and the X-Window smala (very bad packaging, hopefully fixed in testing). 
I don't have LDAP experience but plan to use it on my own server very 
soon (for roaming purposes).