Re: editfiles question

[Ed Brown]

This could be very useful, and a very timely suggestion, for a recent
situation, where I've been creating some accounts manually, for lack of
time to find a real solution.  (Also, it's helpful to have examples, not
having used the ...FileItems and ...FromFile actions before.)

thanks,
Ed


On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 09:30, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> 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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