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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6402] Wireshark installer creates group using poor choice

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:20:46 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6402

--- Comment #2 from Michael Schmitt <mschmitt@xxxxxxx> 2011-09-28 17:20:45 PDT ---
My primary group is staff also (GID 20)

I realize it didn't change actually change the GID on the files. But has the
appearance of doing so.

I can't explain why the files have GID > 500, with a non-existent group, but
I've checked two machines and they both have such files.

There is an explanation on the web for one way this can happen: a result of a
migration from Panther, where new users were put in a group with the same name
and number as the user. But that isn't my case; one machine started as Leopard,
the other one is a relatively new Snow Leopard machine.

Based on the variety of files affected with this, I suspect there is more than
one way for it to happen.

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