/etc/profile, mk[passwd|group|group_l_d] messages

[Morrison, John]

Hi all,

Igor and I have been having a chat about the warning/error messages
which appear when there's something wrong with /etc/[passwd|group].

Here's what we are considering so far...

case "`id -ng`" in
mkpasswd )
 	echo "The /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files need to be
rebuilt."
	echo "See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example,
run"
	echo "mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd"
 	echo "mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group"
 	echo "as appropriate.  Note that the -d switch is necessary for"
 	echo "domain users."
	;;
mkgroup )
 	echo "The /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) files need to be
 	rebuilt." echo "See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then,
 	for example, run" echo "mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd"
	echo "mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group"
 	echo "as appropriate.  Note that the -d switch is necessary for"
 	echo "domain users." ;;
mkgroup_l_d )
 	echo "The /etc/group file doesn't contain the domain groups."
 	echo "See the man page for mkgroup and then, for example, run"
 	echo "mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group"
 	echo "as appropriate."
 	echo
 	echo "You can safely ignore this message"
	echo "To stop it displaying, please edit /etc/profile"
 	;;
esac

but neither of us is 100% sure this is correct, Pierre, Corinna,
[anyone else ;) ] any comments/opinions?...

J.


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