I usually do the VSX setup using scripts based on the useradd and groupadd scripts (on SVR4 systems). I think this did work on Redhat.
regards Andrew On Jun 3, 9:43am in "Re: specification fo", Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > > > [ I am Cc-ing lsb-discuss, but if you're interested in any of the > > specification details, you should really join the lsb-spec list. ] > > > > One of the items on the list of things that needs to be specified is a > > standard way for LSB applications to add (and remove?) users and groups > > to an LSB system. Before I seek a volunteer for working on the > > specification, is there agreement that this is needed? Will some > > applications need to add users and groups? Can we solve the problem in > > a way that makes sense (even on a large network)? > > The TETWare based POSIX test suite from TOG wants to have 4 specific users > created when it installs, each with their own unique group (not the user > name). The Debian adduser utility normally creates each new user as the > sole member of a new group with the same name as the user. Although you > can specify tha group name for this new user, or add the new user to > another group. The complications created are not yet clear to me. On the > one hand, I can create only the user names and group names needed by test > suite, leaving out the Debian defaults for the user's group; or I can > create a standard Debian user, and add them to the group specified by the > test suite. This adds an additional, superfluous, and possibly > conflicting, group name to the mix of groups under test. I don't have > enought close experience with the test suite to know how it would be > effected by these differences. I _is_ on my agenda. > > Waiting is, > > Dwarf > -- > _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- > > aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 > Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 > > _-_-_-_-_-_- See www.linuxpress.com for more details _-_-_-_-_-_-_- > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-- End of excerpt from Dale Scheetz
