Re: vipw with cfengine?

[Kai Großjohann]

skaar <skaar@aol.net> writes:

> provided that cfengine is the only thing that will update your password
> file, you don't have to care much about the locking - you would:

Heh, I do expect that users might type "passwd" or "chfn"...

Maybe another solution is to write a shell script

    #!/bin/sh
    cfagent -f /var/lib/cfengine2/inputs/cf.edpw

where cf.edpw is a cfengine config file that edits the passwd file as
I like.  Then cfagent.conf runs a shell command that's something like
"EDITOR=/the/above/script vipw".

One might have to extend the above script to make sure to edit the
temp file that vipw creates, instead of /etc/passwd.
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