joinpasswd

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Michal Moskal wrote:
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> > > > 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.

Yes. In this case you are right.

kloczek
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