Re: LSB specification for adding users and groups

[Julie Haugh <jfh@bga.com>]

Torsten Landschoff wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:33:02AM -0700, Erik Troan wrote:
>
> > Having to do a find and chown() across the entire system would take a
> > noticeable amount of time, and I don't want to start doing that unless
> > there is a real benefit to doing so. I'd love to know how debian has handled
> > uid changes in the past.
>
> Hehe - we have an "update-passwd" program which modifies /etc/passwd resp.
> /etc/group accordingly. Quoting the manpage:
>
> BUGS
>        update-passwd is not very smart yet.  It only updates  the
>        databases,  it  makes  no attempt to assure system consis­
>        tency.  If a uid/gid you're using on your system is elimi­
>        nated or changed, it could cause trouble.
>
> I would say that we could just run a find over the whole system with the
> exception of /home.

I've not looked at the usermod manpage of late, but I thought it had an
option that would do this in a more thoughtful manner?

-- Julie.