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Re: /etc/passwd doesnt contain all users



On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 02:08:40PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Though now that I think about it, there is really very little reason
> to check for the existence of a user at all.  Most packages should be
> using adduser, which will do the right thing if the user already
> exists.

Oh, it will? Excellent. I have a few maintainer scripts to simplify
then.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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