Spam Collector wrote: > What's the best way to use cfengine to manage /etc/passwd and > /etc/shadow? Managing the entire file as a copy would be easy enough, > but how can you just manage a chunk of it? Using edifiles to control a > block would have the desired result, except that AFAIK you can't have > comment lines in those files (the ### BEGIN and ### END lines I use to > manage blocks in other config files).
As there is no order to a passwd file, why do you need to manage it in blocks at all? A trick that I am fond of is embedding vipw in shellcommands with ed as EDITOR, but that would not scale to large collections of users. -- Brendan _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
