[Ace] Question

Theo McGuckin tsm at jlab.org
Fri May 21 14:31:19 EDT 2010


You don't think anyone's been playing GAMES with our systems, do you? Eh? ;p

Come on, you were all thinking of some similar bad joke, admit it.

Theo Larrieu wrote:
> Group games appears to be a default group that comes with redhat linux.  
> It's not coming from NIS, but in the default local /etc/group file.  It 
> maps to gid 20.
>
> I'm not sure why the files below are being set to that gid, but I doubt 
> it's anything nefarious.
>
> -Theo
>
> Brian Bevins wrote:
>   
>> Jonathan,
>>
>> I've never seen that either. I'm passing this on to the ACE team. 
>> Hopefully somebody knows what this means.
>>
>> --Brian
>>
>> Jonathan Creel wrote:
>>     
>>> Brian
>>> This snap shot is from directory "/a/chluser/opshome/burt/allsnap ".
>>> Do you know what group "games" is? Robert Norton was trying to mod 
>>> one of these files and could not because of permissions issues.
>>> I dont recall every seeing group "games" before. ?
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jonathan Creel
>>> Cryogenic Electrical and Control Systems Manager
>>> Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
>>> Phone (757)269-5925
>>>       
>> -- 
>> Brian S. Bevins, PE
>> Computer Scientist / Mechanical Engineer
>> Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
>>
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>>       for the urge to rule it."
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