Re: ITC: dpkg-sysconfig
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:21:42PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:19:16PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
CUT
> > There are a couple of problems. One is group memberships. In cfengine
> > (if I'm right) you can only do something like:
> >
> > foo = ( bar1 bar2 bar3 )
> >
> > This assigns barX to the group foo. But I need to have multiple packages
> > assign different users to the same group. I can not see that it is
> > possible, or.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean...I think you're confusing UNIX groups with
> cfengine classes.
No I do not think so. Because it was discussing NIS groups and how
to specify them.
> > But cfengine seems to be a nice thing. Quite hard to revert the changes
> > that cfengine have created but that is maybe not a big issue. It does
> > not solve all problems but some of them. I can not see that you can add
> > users using cfengine, but I can be wrong here too.
>
> It's not easy to revert the changes one-by-one in most cases, but it's easy
> to back out to the state of the system before cfengine touched it, as
> cfengine backs up each file before modifying it.
Cool. That is enough for me. :)
> I don't think there is a built-in capability for adding a user, but it would
> be a good addition to the program, and probably easy to implement. Even
> without extending cfengine, it is easy to add a user to a Debian system
> using a shellcommand rule and adduser.
Yes, that is what I'm using today. :)
Regards,
// Ola
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