Re: /etc/passwd

["Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@telerama.com>]

What I was trying to do is arange my passwd file by 
departments, like this:


##############  accounting dept  ###############
user1:x:.............
user2:x:..............
user3:x:.......
############## Developmet dept ################
user1:x:.............
user2:x:..............
user3:x:.......
############## Research dept ################
user1:x:.............
user2:x:..............
user3:x:.......


-=[cwa]=-

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Wes Wannemacher wrote:

:)On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
:)> 
:)> A general question (i.e. not Debian specific) about
:)> the /etc/passwd file.  Can "comment" lines (i.e "#")
:)> or "blank" lines be inserted into the /etc/passwd file
:)> w/o causing havoc on a Linux system?
:)> 
:)
:)Blank lines are a definite no-no. There is a comment section of the
:)standard entry. Is this space insufficient? If you need more
:)functionality, you may need to take a look at LDAP. Even though it
:)doesn't work well with Debian. 
:)Here at the University we store all user account information in a MySQL
:)database. We run scripts frequently to update our debian systems with
:)the appropriate data from the database. If you implement a solution like
:)this, you can add / change the MySQL any way you want, just make sure
:)that your scripts only update the /etc/passwd file appropriately. 
:)
:)->W
:)
:)

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