Re: vipw with cfengine?

[Kai Großjohann]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> vipw does some magic to lock the file.  Is this also possible with
> cfengine?

A convenient method to implement it would be a pair of commands.  The
first command locks the file (like vipw does before invoking $EDITOR)
and copies /etc/passwd to a temp file to a known name.  CFengine can
then edit this temp file.  The second command copies the temp file
back to /etc/passwd and unlocks.

Then cfagent.conf could invoke shellcommands.firstcommand, then
editfiles, then shellcommands.secondcommand, and Bob's my uncle.

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