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

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue May 15 03:23:36 UTC 2007


Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net) said: 
> > You said 'have setup upgrade'. setup cannot have scriptlets (and this
> > sort of thing is horribly ugly anyways.)
> 
> Well, what do you propose on how to deal with changes in passwd short
> of requiring the user to run anaconda? Every age and a while there are
> changes needed after all.

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.'

Bill




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