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RE: Building /etc/passwd from setup.exe


> From: Earnie Boyd
> Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >
> > That file has no effect if it runs after passwd-grp.bat, because
> > then the passwd file already exists. I have observed that order,
> > I don't know if it's deterministic.

It was written so it wouldn't have any effect on a current installation.
It shouldn't care which, under the current setup, was ran first.

> > So that's why domain users are not included, and why they are included
> > if they delete /etc/passwd and rerun /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh.done
> > after setup, as has been suggested on the list.

Yes, I know.  I wrote it at Rob Collin's request to remove passwd-grp.bat
out of setup.exe.

Where's the problem?  Any domain user issues should go away when the
next setup.exe is released.

> This ``$type'' should only poll for the current user in the domain.  I
> and my company would be very upset if I polled for 10's of thousands of
> users.

You have 10's of thousands of users on the same domain?  Ouch, thats, err...
not how I would have set it up.

This package has been 'out there' for several months now and there was
a *lot* of list communications (pleas!) to get it reviewed and uploaded.
Most of which went unheaded.

J.


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