Re: editfiles question

[Mark . Burgess]

This any use?

http://www.cfengine.org/confdir/customizepasswd.html

M

On  1 Sep, Ed Brown wrote:
> Right.  No root line, no editing.  Useful for setting the root passwd in
> /etc/shadow, where if there's not an entry for root, something is pretty
> seriously wrong.  Guess I didn't read your requirements carefully
> enough.
>  
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 09:00, Sven Mueller wrote:
>> Ed Brown [u] wrote on 01/09/2004 16:44:
>> 
>> > Here's another approach:
>> > 
>> > editfiles:
>> >    { /etc/whatever
>> >           BeginGroupIfNoLineMatching "root:$1raboof:4875::::::"
>> >                  LocateLineMatching "^root:.*"
>> >                  ReplaceLineWith "root:$1raboof:4875::::::"
>> >           EndGroup
>> >    }
>> 
>> Wouldn't that approach replace some other line if no line matching 
>> "^root:.*" was found while no line matching "root:$1raboof:4875::::::" 
>> existed before?
>> Hmm, no, according to the documentation, if LocateLineMatching doesn't 
>> find a match, it aborts any further editing. So your approach will only 
>> replace existing lines, but if none matching "root:.*" is found, it 
>> won't do anything.
>> 
>> cu,
>> sven
> 
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