On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:58:27PM +0000, Michael Gellman wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 19:05 +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > > 1) copying passwd is not a good idea: it contains many dynamic entries > > generated by packages (and thus changes quite often) > > Can I ask how you handle adding user accounts to systems installed with > FAI? I currently store my passwd and group file in FAI, and have to make > sure to manually update it to add new users, which is beginning to > become an administrative problem.
well, if the client(s) has got network access, a directory service like nis or ldap is the best way (from the viewpoint of administrative costs). if this is not possible, I'd add a script adding the users via adduser, and substituting the passwords (if needed). -- c u henning
