[Fedora-packaging] Re: Second user/group handling draft

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue May 15 19:29:53 UTC 2007


Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net) said: 
> > usermod run somewhere else. It's been done before. Obviously, the answer
> > is 'don't break anything in the stock passwd file, and don't add things
> > to it.'
> 
> Yes, but where? And do you really want to record all diffs from passwd
> over time into usermod statements?

Over 'the history of the world',there have been roughly *two* changes. I
really don't think it's a big deal. For example, changing the homedir
of ftp was done in either wu-ftpd or vsftpd at the time.

Bill




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