Have a perl script that adds a user to the master.passwd file (yeah I know, dangerous, but it's only bit me twice in as many years and could recover with the backup the script makes).
Part of the script involves invoking system commands to make the home directory and change permissions on it. Unfortunately, even though testing for the return status, I still find that that often the chown system call fails with "directory not found". It would seem that the mkdir command returns a status of success before the directory tables are actually updated and/or the changes written to disk. (This happens regardless of whether I use the perl builtins or system() calls).
So the idea would be to invoke the pw command instead, but having a 30 second rebuild for every user added, deleted, password changed, etc is kind of a show stopper here.
Has anyone patched or found a way to make this happen? If not, has anyone done similar to what I am trying to do or found other workarounds?
Thanks,
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