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Re: Some notes on installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yoav@MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 28 05:18:34 1994
From: yoav@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 94 05:18:19 -0500
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU, yoav@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
Oky. just to get a few words in here..
you can't just create stuff from /etc/passwd into /etc/master.passwd
you also need to create two other db databases (secure and insecure).
seeing as you want to avoid perl.. I don't know how to edit db
files in sh or csh.
I don't see what's wrong with the following:
/bin/login
adds you to the four files (/etc/passwd, etc/master.passwd, and the
secure and insecure databases)
removes you from all four on logout.
/etc/reactivate
creates the four files based on /etc/passwd.local (as opposed to copy the file over).
Is there any case where the above method would fail? (this makes all four files
derived from /etc/passwd.local, but would still make an addition similar to the previous
we might still need a script to generate the above files after an addition to /etc/passwd.local
though the easiest fix is to simply do a timestamp check on /etc/passwd.local and
/etc/passwd. IF /etc/passwd is older than passwd.local, overwrite? is this a
reasonable approach?
As for the /etc/group.. this is just like older versions of bsd.. nothing has changed.
yoav
