Re: LSB specification for adding users and groups

[Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 11:33:02AM -0700, Erik Troan wrote:
 
> Having to do a find and chown() across the entire system would take a
> noticeable amount of time, and I don't want to start doing that unless
> there is a real benefit to doing so. I'd love to know how debian has handled
> uid changes in the past.

Hehe - we have an "update-passwd" program which modifies /etc/passwd resp.
/etc/group accordingly. Quoting the manpage:

BUGS
       update-passwd is not very smart yet.  It only updates  the
       databases,  it  makes  no attempt to assure system consis­
       tency.  If a uid/gid you're using on your system is elimi­
       nated or changed, it could cause trouble.

I would say that we could just run a find over the whole system with the
exception of /home. 

cu
    Torsten