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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:09:12 -0200 (EDT)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
To:        winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd)
Cc:        jonny@jonny.eng.br, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, bde@zeta.org.au, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Uh oh...
Message-ID:  <199812022309.VAA26615@roma.coe.ufrj.br>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9812021759080.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net> from "Matthew N. Dodd" at "Dec 2, 98 06:00:02 pm"

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// On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:
// > Check the existence of every user and group needed for the system, at
// > the very beggining of the make world, and stop the compilation if they
// > are not present.  This should be done the earliest possible, and must
// > show every needed user, including the probably obvious ones.
// 
// And tell them they can use 'make updategroupsandusers' to let the system
// do it for them.

Is this safe to be done by a make script ?

I was thinking about manual editing.  Mostly because I'm not only
thinking in the upgrade case, but also in some special cases in which
a admin removes some previously existant groups, like network, man, bin
or even wheel, thinking they have no use for him.

Maybe a suggestion to look at src/etc/master.passwd, etc. could be
enough.  Anyway, make world should not be used by novices.  :)

					Jonny

--
Joao Carlos Mendes Luis            M.Sc. Student
jonny@jonny.eng.br                 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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