> You can locate the RE fairly easily:> >
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6387333
That's the first thing I did. You'll note that nowehere on that page does it
state what the ETA for the fix is, which is why I asked if you could "pull some
strings" and find out if and when this will be fixed. Even an estimate would
help a lot, really.
> Yes. And it'd be out of step with the running kernel.
Ah, so there we have it. That's the real problem behind the `chroot` approach.
So my suspicions turned out to be true after all.
> That's a good question, and I don't have a good answer.> > You could possibly
> write an awk or shell script that does the obvious> things to /etc/passwd and
> /etc/shadow. Though that wouldn't work in> some more exotic situations, I
> think that'd be more reliable than> chroot.
I'm considering doing that. The caveat is that I might miss something, which is
why I always try to go through the commands rather than make entries directly.
In this case, I might just have to make an exception.
> Better still, though, is to pick up that bug and solve it. Things> always get
> done faster when the person doing the work has a strong> motivation to make
> it happen.
Option #2. Like I wrote before, this is a nontrivial problem. I have a small,
trivial fix waiting for months on end to get integrated. If I have to wait that
long for a trivial fix to get integrated, just imagine how much time it'll take
to get *three* major revisions on three commands integrated into OpenSolaris!
`useradd` and `userdel` might be easier to solve. But `passwd`, now that's
going to be hard. There are simply too many things to consider, and I might not
stand a chance.
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