[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] 2.6 kernel support anytime soon? Workarounds?

Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org
Tue, 11 May 2004 12:07:43 -0400


On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:28:32AM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> >On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 07:02:26PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> >>> Putting the PAG in the supplementary group list, though unavoidable,
> >>> was and is no less broken.
> >>True.  But it's not terribly invasive and works pretty much everywhere.
> >Except for the part where it breaks Unix security.....
> Can you be a bit more specific?  What does it break?

Suddenly people are members of groups they weren't before! What if it
happens to be a group that is supposed to mean something?


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