Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:57:47 +0200 (CEST) From: kama <kama@pvp.se> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade from source to RC1: problems with /etc : lost users and dbus Message-ID: <20111028165451.O37058@ns1.as.pvp.se> In-Reply-To: <201110280749.58837.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20111027102208.88BFB106564A@hub.freebsd.org> <CAFHbX1%2BWPM0E%2BUGpKKVb8WoNyeYBOp5GdrF59E3sgRp1TM8VRg@mail.gmail.com> <20111027111451.GO63910@hoeg.nl> <201110280749.58837.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:14:51 am Ed Schouten wrote: > > * Tom Evans <tevans.uk@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. =) /Bjorn
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