Re: [gentoo-dev] How to force homedir on enewuser
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:46:58 +0100 Hanno Böck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the correct way to handle this? I'd suggest that enewuser might get some force-parameter that tells it to delete and recreate the user if it already exists. Thoughts? Tell the user to do it manually in pkg_setup/postinst. This is something that IMO shouldn't be done by the ebuild/package manager for two reasons: - extreme cornercase, or how often does this come up? - the system might rely on the current settings in unexpected ways Marius -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] How to force homedir on enewuser
On Friday 18 January 2008, Marius Mauch wrote: Hanno Böck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the correct way to handle this? I'd suggest that enewuser might get some force-parameter that tells it to delete and recreate the user if it already exists. Thoughts? Tell the user to do it manually in pkg_setup/postinst. This is something that IMO shouldn't be done by the ebuild/package manager for two reasons: - extreme cornercase, or how often does this come up? - the system might rely on the current settings in unexpected ways right, there is no way (by design) to force these settings on an already created user. if the old path really truly should not be the old value, you can do something like this in pkg_setup: if [[ $(egetent passwd user | cut -d: -f6) == /the/old/path ]] ; then eerror please run usermod -m -d /new/path .. die moocow fi -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-dev] How to force homedir on enewuser
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 06:41 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
right, there is no way (by design) to force these settings on an already
created user. if the old path really truly should not be the old value, you
can do something like this in pkg_setup:
if [[ $(egetent passwd user | cut -d: -f6) == /the/old/path ]] ; then
eerror please run usermod -m -d /new/path ..
die moocow
fi
You should also ensure that ${ROOT} is /
Thanks
Roy
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[gentoo-dev] How to force homedir on enewuser
Hi, Following situation: Older mailman ebuilds used to set the mailman user home to /usr/local/mailman (which is obviously wrong). Now with the new mailman ebuild, various directories are configurable. The mailman user is created with the enewuser macro. Now, the problem is that enewuser just exits with zero if the user already exists. Thus the old homedir is kept. What is the correct way to handle this? I'd suggest that enewuser might get some force-parameter that tells it to delete and recreate the user if it already exists. Thoughts? (If noone comes around with a better idea, I'll open a bug with a feature request within a few days) -- Hanno Böck Blog: http://www.hboeck.de/ GPG: 3DBD3B20 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
