Bug 8515 – changed gid

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Toby Dickenson 2002-09-28 12:06:52 UTC]

I have recent updated sys-apps/baselayout, and I now have a 
/etc/._cfg0000_group file with a few groups with changed id.  
  
the group 'sshd' is now gid 22, and was 90. 'games' is now 35, and was 22.  
  
/var/lib/games has gid 22. I guess this need to be manually changed to gid 35  
now.  
  
Im not sure what else might not be expecting these gid changes. They were not  
mentioned in the Changelog :(

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-09-29 00:05:26 UTC]

this was covered in a Bug ... basically using gid of '22' is kind of standard 
across distro's, so we chose that ... 

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2002-09-29 00:06:28 UTC]

and thinking about this after i hit submit, i'm not sure how much we'll try to 
handle this kind of thing ... Gentoo is in constant development, and things 
like '/etc/group' are really supposed to be set in stone ... 
 
as such, the gid's arent supposed to change ... but you do make a good point :) 

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-09-29 17:35:24 UTC]

we need a policy, I should think

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-09-14 07:48:46 UTC]

This is dead, and we have not done this since.

[Comment 5 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-09-25 15:06:30 UTC]

db issue