Re: [Cooker] Re: how many times is an upgrade going to trash my password file?

2002-02-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
»Borsenkow Andrej« sagte am 2002-02-19 um 11:13:30 +0300 : and it has low (=system) UID ... so I guess it is not preserved by update-passwd. So you also agree it's a bug, don't you? Especially if it's not a standard account, it must be preserved. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote:

Re: [Cooker] Re: how many times is an upgrade going to trash my password file?

2002-02-19 Thread Buchan Milne
You probably wouldn't have to put it back if amanda were in the distro ;-) (although that is not a solution!). I have amanda srpms that compile and install fine on 8.x (but not quite tested yet ...) ... anyone interested? But my other question is, are system uid's guaranteed to be the same

RE: [Cooker] Re: how many times is an upgrade going to trash my password file?

2002-02-19 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
Borsenkow Andrej sagte am 2002-02-19 um 11:13:30 +0300 : and it has low (=system) UID ... so I guess it is not preserved by update-passwd. So you also agree it's a bug, don't you? Especially if it's not a standard account, it must be preserved. It is policy dependent. If policy is

Re: [Cooker] Re: how many times is an upgrade going to trash my password file?

2002-02-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
»Borsenkow Andrej« sagte am 2002-02-19 um 12:54:50 +0300 : It is policy dependent. If policy is to have all standard system accounts in one package (or at least let setup know all _possible_ system accounts) - it is not a bug. Okay, but what would be the proper way to add custom system

RE: [Cooker] Re: how many times is an upgrade going to trash my password file?

2002-02-18 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:14:48AM +0300, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: It never did it for me (and judging by small number of reports for others) so what so different in your password file? I recall seeing quite a few reports. I dunno what is so different on mine. One of the accounts