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Re: Bug #23053



James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk> writes:

> > If I'm not allowed to write a (graphical) replacement for adduser,
> > then I (and Debian) have 202kb worth of totaly worthless perlcode...
> 
> That's not what I said, please don't invent things for the sake of
> histrionics.  I said you're not allowed to muck with files owned by
> other packages.  Why don't you look at adduser?  It does the Right
> thing for accessing /etc/{passwd,group,shadow} (i.e. doesn't
> directly).

Oki... Sorry, I see what you mean. I must have mixed up the names 'adduser'
and 'useradd'...

What if I do it the '{user|group}add' way when I change the files? (I haven't
looked into it yet, but...). I prefer not to start doing systemcall's, exec's
etc, if I can avoid it...

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