On 2005-03-10, Brendan Strejcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
The purpose is to have site-wide management of some accounts while still allowing other locally managed accounts. Frank > > 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
