Overwriting passwd shadow and group may not be such a good idea as all distros usually have a few user accounts and/or groups that they use for certain things. I know that Gentoo has a "portage" group that is used for package updates and such.
- Jason Herne On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 15:26, Adam Thornton wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 14:22, Richard Pinion wrote: > > The driving system is TAO and the target system is Gentoo. I must admit I don't > > know for sure that the passwd file structures are the same. If they are then yes > > that would be a good idea. > > Unless they have some weird PAM thing set up, they should be. Unix > passwd file format has been pretty stable for a couple decades now. > > Adam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
