RE: Editing fields in /etc/passwd

[Martin, Jason H]

If editfiles isn't up to the task, you could always create a shell command based around sed that fixes the file for you. You could predicate that shellcommand on some other class that first determines if the fix needs to be made.

 

-Jason Martin

 

-----Original Message-----
From: help-cfengine-bounces+jason.h.martin=cingular.com@gnu.org [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+jason.h.martin=cingular.com@gnu.org]On Behalf Of david.nelson@ni.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 10:39 AM
To: Adrian Phillips
Cc: help-cfengine-bounces+david.nelson=ni.com@gnu.org; Help-cfengine@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Editing fields in /etc/passwd

Yes, it would. 
 However, the passwd file format is 
"<user>:x:<uid>:<gid>...." and I can't guarantee that the 
'<uid>' will be consistent accross all systems.  This is where I'm 
running into problems in how to preserve the '<uid>' field. 

Regards, 
         /\/elson

Adrian Phillips <a.phillips@met.no>
Sent by: help-cfengine-bounces+david.nelson=ni.com@gnu.org

07/27/2005 12:13 PM

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Subject	Re: Editing fields in /etc/passwd

>>>>> "David" == David E Nelson 
<david.nelson@ni.com> writes:

   David> Looking 
through 'editfiles', I'm not seeing an easy way to
   David> 
edit a single field in /etc/passwd - I need to change the
  
 David> primary group for one account.  I can't just replace 
the
   David> entire line since the Gecos and home dir aren't 
consistent
   David> across systems.  Any 
ideas?

Won't something like the following work :-

ReplaceAll 
"^<user>:x:<groupid>:" With "<user>:x:<new 
groupid>:"

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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