Re: /etc/passwd
I'm really not sure about actual comments, though I lean
towards it's a bad thing because the people who write the
progs usually leave a few in there for you.
Safer is to put a department code into the GECOS field, then
write a script that will group by dept. or pick out particular
depts. you can even put a little wrapper round useradd to do that.
rick
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> 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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>
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