better upgrading for /etc/{passwd,group} ?

[amos@dsi.co.il (Amos Shapira)]

Hello,

Are there any plans for impruving the handling of "system users" and
"system groups"?  I mean users and groups defined in the base
/etc/passwd and /etc/group files?

As it is now, I have to manually walk along my current /etc/passwd and
/etc/group file and merge it with the one which came with base-files.

The general idea I was thinking of is to have base-files come with a
script which merges the current passwords and non-system-ids with the
files which come with base-files (maybe identifying them in the
current passwd file by their below-1000 id?)

Any comments?

Cheers,

--Amos

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