Bug#554170: passwd: handle /var/backups/passwd.bak

2010-03-19 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:19:10PM +, Justin B Rye wrote: The section in /etc/cron.daily/standard currently looks like this: -- #!/bin/sh [...] bak=/var/backups [...] # # Backup key system files # if cd

Bug#554170: passwd: handle /var/backups/passwd.bak

2010-03-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Nicolas François wrote: Justin B Rye wrote: [...] Or preferably something more like this: -- #!/bin/sh cd /var/backups || exit 0 for FILE in passwd group shadow gshadow; do test -f /etc/$FILE || continue

Bug#554170: passwd: handle /var/backups/passwd.bak

2009-11-03 Thread Justin B Rye
Package: passwd Version: 1:4.1.4.2-1 Severity: wishlist At present /etc/cron.daily/standard maintains backups of /etc/passwd (and so on) in /var/backups. If this is something that it's generally agreed is worth doing, it would seem to make more sense for the cronjob handling it to belong to the