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Re: more compliance checks - bug in the unix ones

Subject: Re: more compliance checks - bug in the unix ones
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:23:00 +0100

On Jan 12, 2007, at 11:01 PM, Doug Nordwall wrote:

"Account with bad home permissions" : [FAILED]
- error message: The following home directories have inappropriate permissions and/or ownership :


 /Users/dnordwall  mode: 0755 owner: dnordwal (should be dnordwall)


seems to me that it should probably do a UID check and not a translated name check.

Ah, this is an interesting case -- your username has more than 8 characters in /etc/passwd but the operating system only displays the first 8 when doing an ls.


I'll make sure this gets fixed first thing on monday to use UID instead.


Thanks,

                                -- Renaud
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