[nmglug] Group file altered

[BrianO'Keefe]

Not to redirect this thread but in Ubuntu one can either enter man:xine
(or whatever app) into Firefox and it opens Gnome Help or easier open
Gnome Help from the panel and type "man:appof choice" into search and up
it comes-all scrollable and stuff.

Mars DeLapp wrote:
> Sam Noble wrote:
>> man:x:12:
>
> This got turned into a url by Thunderbird.
>
> That clued me in to try man:xine as a URL in Konqueror. That brings up
> the man page for xine.
>
> Sweet! An easy way to access man pages
>
> OK back to the subject at hand; (Assuming all the Ubuntu GID policies
> are inherited from Debian) system group numbers 0-99 are statically
> allocated to a particular package. System group numbers 100-999 are
> dynamically allocated as packages are installed. See "9.2 Users and
> groups" at:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html
>
> If you installed all your packages in the same order that Tom did on
> his system, then using his /etc/group file should be OK. Otherwise you
> need to deal with figuring out the appropriate group name and GID
> associations for all the GIDs 100-999. I estimate there are about 20
> of them based on my /etc/group file.
>
> Here is how I would go about fixing the problem.
>
> Reinstall base-passwd package. That should fix the 0-99 groups.
>
> Now search for GID numbers 100 to 130 using find
>
> ~# find / -gid 100 -ls
>
> then try to figure out what group the files should belong to.
>
> Mars
>