[RFC] Globally creating a user and a group "root"

[Morrison, John]

OK, took some lunch time ;)

Hows this for passwd-grp.sh

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#!/bin/sh

if [ ! -e /etc/passwd -a ! -L /etc/passwd ] ; then
  /bin/mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd
fi

if [ ! -e /etc/group -a ! -L /etc/group ] ; then
  /bin/mkgroup -l -c > /etc/group
fi

cp -f /etc/passwd ~/passwd.mkpasswd && \
( [ -w /etc/passwd ] || chmod --silent a+w /etc/passwd ; ) && \
sed -e '/:S-1-1-0:/d' ~/passwd.passwd > /etc/passwd && \
chmod --silent --reference=/etc/group /etc/passwd
rm -f ~/passwd.mkpasswd

cp -f /etc/group ~/group.mkgroup && \
( [ -w /etc/group ] || chmod --silent a+w /etc/group ; ) && \
echo "root:S-1-5-32-544:0:" > /etc/group && \
sed -e '/:S-1-1-0:/d' ~/group.mkgroup > /etc/group && \
chmod --silent --reference=/etc/passwd /etc/group
rm -f ~/group.mkgroup

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comments?  (I tried to make it play nice with file
permissions)

J.



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