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

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:24:15PM -0000, Morrison, John wrote:
> OK, took some lunch time ;)
>
> Hows this for passwd-grp.sh
> 
> -------------------------------------
> 
> #!/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)

Cool!  Just the `echo "root:..."' should only be called if the
group file doesn't already contain that entry.  As I said, the
upcoming mkgroup will create this entry already (with -l).  You
should check its existence first.

Thanks,
Corinna

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