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> Commendable indeed. On the other hand=2C a discussion with the team
> concludes such effort is probably not worthwhile for two reasons:
>
> 1) pkg(5) user action reduces this SMF service to very little value
> since OpenSolaris has no such need.
>
> 2) For pre-OpenSolaris=2C we get little benefit for this work. Immediate
> user creation for pkgadd to a running root is the same as pre/post
> install scripts. For user creation on -R $PKG_INSTALL_ROOT=2C we'll need
> to boot using that root to import the service which is the same as
> pkgadd and run pre/post install scripts on a live root.
>
> That said=2C if you are still interested=2C we can pursue this further wi=
th
> discussion of dependency for other services=2C service states implication=
s
> =2C and property organization.


I will defer to Your team's consensus=2C since I already

wrote the code to manipulate the passwd(4) and shadow(4) files on

$PKG_INSTALL_ROOT directly.
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