Re: Upgrade from source to RC1: problems with /etc : lost users

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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