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Re: Ways to manage passwd/shadow files?
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Brendan Strejcek |
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Re: Ways to manage passwd/shadow files? |
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Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:00:33 -0600 |
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Spam Collector wrote:
> What's the best way to use cfengine to manage /etc/passwd and
> /etc/shadow? Managing the entire file as a copy would be easy enough,
> but how can you just manage a chunk of it? Using edifiles to control a
> block would have the desired result, except that AFAIK you can't have
> comment lines in those files (the ### BEGIN and ### END lines I use to
> manage blocks in other config files).
As there is no order to a passwd file, why do you need to manage it in
blocks at all?
A trick that I am fond of is embedding vipw in shellcommands with ed as
EDITOR, but that would not scale to large collections of users.
-- Brendan