On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:14:51 am Ed Schouten wrote: > > * Tom Evans <tevans.uk_at_googlemail.com>, 20111027 13:06: > > > I have had this happen before, the PEBKAC. When running mergemaster, > > > it will prompt you to install new passwd, master.passwd and group > > > files - if you have added local users you must not say yes to this, > > > you must either merge the changes in or keep your local one. > > > > It would have been so awesome if our /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group > > included an #include directive. > > I do agree with this. Or if you could have /etc/passwd.d and /etc/group.d > directories that can contain files that are auto-included. Another idea is to let mergemaster call pw(8) to add remove users and groups instead of merging the files. It does not cover /etc/aliases though... But that is minor to this. =) /BjornReceived on Fri Oct 28 2011 - 13:25:53 UTC
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