Maintaining passwd [was Re: Copy directories with fcopy]

[Henning Glawe]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:58:27PM +0000, Michael Gellman wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 19:05 +0100, Henning Glawe wrote:
> > 1) copying passwd is not a good idea: it contains many dynamic entries
> >    generated by packages (and thus changes quite often)
> 
> Can I ask how you handle adding user accounts to systems installed with
> FAI? I currently store my passwd and group file in FAI, and have to make
> sure to manually update it to add new users, which is beginning to
> become an administrative problem. 

well, if the client(s) has got network access, a directory service like nis
or ldap is the best way (from the viewpoint of administrative costs).
if this is not possible, I'd add a script adding the users via adduser, and
substituting the passwords (if needed).

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henning