Re: [Devil-linux-develop] upgrade-config

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:

>>I just ran into a small problem with the upgrade of users/groups.
>>Currently only the passwords of existing users get migrated.
>>
>>This can (in my case did) cause problems, when other things got changed 
>>like group memberships or home directories.
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>Can you be more specific on what users you are talking about?
>
>Normal users, added after installation (tom/dick/harry) should have ALL
>of their attributes moved including home directory, shell, etc.
>
>Users in the default passwd file (root,bin,www,mail,fax,...) only have
>their passwords migrated.  This is because only the stock user which has
>rights to actually login is "root".  So, why is this a problem?  Did you
>change root's home directory or shell?  Or are you using "bin" as a
>login user? (shame on you! :)
>  
>
No I did actually change the home directory of "ftp", since this is the 
user the vsftpd runs under.

>>Should we just go ahead and plain-dumb copy the entire lines from the 
>>passwd/shadow/group/gshadow files ?
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>No, please give more details of what the hell you're doing, and I'll
>adjust accordingly.  :-)
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>
I didn't do anything... :-)))

As I said, for me it's only the ftp user, but I was thinking that other 
users could be more "creative".

cu
  Heiko