Managers:
I have an odd question about the "groups" command. I'm running 4.0D, patch
level 3.
Here is the output of the command, run two different ways (seboldcr is my
username):
$ groups
users system mslive mstest llllive llltest ae_users lllpower mspower prog fndtest msdev helpdesk
$ groups seboldcr
system users users users users users mslive mstest llllive llltest ae_users lllpower mspower prog fndtest msdev helpdesk
Notice how the group "users" is repeated 5 times in the second version of
the command.
Any idea why this would be? In the /etc/groups file, my name only shows up
once in users.
This is also the case with "id -Gn":
$ id -Gn
users system mslive mstest llllive llltest ae_users lllpower mspower prog fndtest msdev helpdesk
$ id -Gn seboldcr
system users users users users users mslive mstest llllive llltest ae_users lllpower mspower prog fndtest msdev helpdesk
(I tried that because in Linux I know that the two commands are basically
identical, and it would seem that in Tru64 Unix they at least have identical
problems, for me.)
This is an issue because we have scripts in our database system that have to
check group membership this way (rather than using system calls).
I will summarize.
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Charles Sebold, UNIX Systems Specialist
LCMS - Office of Information Systems
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Received on Thu Sep 02 1999 - 19:01:00 NZST