Re: Modifying /etc/group and /etc/passwd [RANT]
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 01:12:23PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
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>
> BTW: This changes to /etc/group always break when using NIS. Funny stuff.
> Reason: People rely on having the user/group in the appropriate files
> /etc/passwd or /etc/group respectively. So they grep for the group to add
> in /etc/group and if it is not there they call addgroup -> boom, group
> exists (via NIS).
>
Perhaps it is time to follow the grand linux tradition of improving
the underlying tools ??
IMHO the tools for manipulating users & groups should be able to deal
with the 3 current ways of keeping user information (files, NIS, NIS+)
and therefore be able to provide a consistent way of updating this
information without the caller (in this case scripts) needing to know
what mechanism is used to store that information.
We could also do with a program that is callable from the scripts that
verifys the existence of the user/group (which if my thinking is correct
would merely be a wrapper around the appropriate C call)
Stuart
> Alternatively they check using id or sg and if the group is there they
> try to delete it. So Debian is not very usable for machine pools anymore.
> Of course I can change the NIS config from the default (this could be done
> in the package) but then I have to manage all the groups locally if they
> have any sense. E.g. it is okay not to share the telnetd group per NFS
> but lpadmin would be nice to have central.
> </rant>
>
> cu
> Torsten
>
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> Torsten Landschoff Bluehorn@IRC <torsten@debian.org>
> Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member
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