Groups 12 and 14

[Randy Rowe]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:40, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 07:15:45PM +0000, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me which groups 12 and 14 are, on a 4.10 system please.
> > 
> > I keep getting this from 340.noid
> > 
> > Check for files with an unknown user or group:
> >   /usr/compat/linux/var/lock
> >   /usr/compat/linux/var/spool/mail
> > 
> > $ ls -ld /usr/compat/linux/var/lock /usr/compat/linux/var/spool/mail
> > drwxrwxr-x  3 root  14  512B Apr 18  2004 /usr/compat/linux/var/lock
> > drwxrwxr-x  2 root  12  512B Feb  6  1996
> > /usr/compat/linux/var/spool/mail
> > 
> > FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #0: Fri Nov  5 21:32:19 GMT 2004
> 
> They aren't assigned to anything by default under FreeBSD.  What you
> are seeing are the default group assignments under Linux -- I believe
> that GID 12 is 'mail', but I have no idea what gid 14 is for.  On my
> system, that file ends up as group 54:
> 
>     % find /usr/compat/ -nogroup -ls 
>     166930    2 drwxr-xr-x    3 root             54                    512 Nov  3 08:00 /usr/compat/linux/var/lock
>     182529    2 drwxr-xr-x    2 root             12                    512 Feb  6  1996 /usr/compat/linux/var/spool/mail
> 
> Which might be a difference due to having a different version of
> linux-base installed:
> 
>     % pkg_info -I linux\*base\*
>     linux_base-8-8.0_4  Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (only for i386)
> 
> As the /compat/linux stuff uses the base /etc/passwd data for it's UID
> and GID information, those group ownerships are arguably incorrect;
> however, I don't think that they really make any sort of difference.
> You could try experimenting with changing the group ownership of those
> files and see if anything breaks...
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 

On my Fedora 2 system they match as follows:

mail:x:12:mail
uucp:x:14:uucp
lock:x:54: