On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 14:00 -0600, Brendan Strejcek wrote: > 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
If you can make it to USENIX, I'll be showing how I manage our netlab which has a subset of the full set of users from another host...it wouldn't be fair to USENIX to publish it before the tutorial. Mark _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
