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
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