Re: Base-passwd issues
Galen Hazelwood <galenh@apexxtech.com> writes:
> > 4. If you are going to renumber items the there should be an
> > associated utility to find all the effected files, present them to
> > the admin for immediate or later action. Any processes running with
> > those uid or gids should also be presented to the admin.
>
> I wrote in the todo list that this problem is "harder than you think"; I
> stand by that assessment.
Any one solving this, I would _WERY_ much like the script/program that
does this... Me and a friend have been woking on this a _VERY_ long time
now, without solving the problem...
I have found that this problem is more or less impossible...
> -- Rewrite update-passwd in perl. I never wanted to do it in C to
> begin with, but when I wrote it (early last fall) I knew little perl,
> and didn't think I could emulate lckpwdf(3) using only perl-base. I
> know a great deal more perl now, and think it might be possible. Many
> of these hard problems mentioned above become much easier in perl.
I would very much like your solution on this, since I have about the
same problem...
> -- Handle problems with NIS users and shadow password files. I don't
> use either, so I never found these problems.
Renaming/Renumbering in the NIS database or adding/removing users from the
NISdb? Check out 'xAdmin' (by me), I have done that (plugg, plugg :)...
> -- Update-passwd will now perform the sanity check by default, and
> prompt for all changes by default. Warnings will be more verbose.
> Files whose owner's UID has changed will be appropriately chowned.
I for one would like a 'Would you like verbose mode or quit' thingie...
(I'm very adventurus... :)
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