joinpasswd

Michal Moskal malekith at pld.org.pl
Mon Aug 13 15:22:33 CEST 2001


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 03:07:13PM +0200, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Michal Moskal wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:39:50PM +0200, Michal Kochanowicz wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:33:36PM +0200, Michal Moskal wrote:
> > > > Lukasz Dobrek, on Friday, suggested me writing tool for adding new users from
> > > > passwd.rpmnew (& Co) files created by setup package upgrade.
> > > > It is fairly simple, it looks if given user (string follwed by ':') already
> > > > exists, and if not entire line is added. I have commited it to setup
> > > > cvs module, file joinpasswd.c.
> > > I like the idea. And how about same tool for merging group.rpmnew?
> > 
> > & Co means group and shadow too... :)
> 
> shadow isn't neccessary (also gshadow). After update passwd for regenerate 
> {g,}shadow can be runed pwconv.

Then setup would require shadow, glibc, /bin/sh. This ain't good idea.
And yes, gotta add gshadow.

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