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Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] users-conf: Reading comments??

No, I do not want this to disable a user - that is not the problem.  There
are other ways to do that.

Did you see my original message? (ie the attachments?)  I have re-included
them with with this message.

sample-input.txt   The sample /etc/passwd
sample-output.txt  The XST output created by users-conf

They show the problem:  MacOSX ships with this file by default, which uses
commenting.

>From my last message,

<snip>
Given this, there are several possible choices as to how we could possibly
detect something is up:
 - Look for a first letter being a '#' (cave in ;P )
 - If there are no seperators detected in a line
 - If the system is detected to be 'powerpc-apple-macos10' (the system in
question), then use one of the above methods
</snip>

Please consider these, or offer other ideas.

Thanks,

Shane

--
Shane Butler <sbutle@deakin.edu.au>



On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Arturo Espinosa Aldama wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, SHANE BUTLER wrote:
>
> > Arturo,
> >
> > I see where you are comming from, however these commands are acceptable:
> >
> > # useradd "a#bc"
> > # useradd "abc#"
> >
> > While this is not:
> >
> > # useradd "#abc"
> > adduser: invalid user name `#abc'
>
> What that means is that you can't create a user named #something, not that
> comments are supported in /etc/passwd. Do you have any documentation that
> positively states that comments are supported? If not, it is an
> undocumented feature, and I don't think it would be wise to support it.
>
> I suppose you want this to disable an user. Tambet: do we have user
> disabling supported? I think we really need that.
>
> Greetings,
> Arturo
>
>
>

  <userdb>

    <user>
      <key>000000</key>
      <login>##</login>
      <password></password>
      <uid></uid>
      <gid></gid>
      <comment></comment>
      <home></home>
      <shell></shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000001</key>
      <login># User Database</login>
      <password></password>
      <uid></uid>
      <gid></gid>
      <comment></comment>
      <home></home>
      <shell></shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000002</key>
      <login># </login>
      <password></password>
      <uid></uid>
      <gid></gid>
      <comment></comment>
      <home></home>
      <shell></shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000003</key>
      <login># Note that this file is consulted when the system is running in single-user</login>
      <password></password>
      <uid></uid>
      <gid></gid>
      <comment></comment>
      <home></home>
      <shell></shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000004</key>
      <login># mode.  At other times this information is handled by lookupd.  By default,</login>
      <password></password>
      <uid></uid>
      <gid></gid>
      <comment></comment>
      <home></home>
      <shell></shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000005</key>
      <login># lookupd gets information from NetInfo, so this file will not be consulted</login>
      <password></password>
      <uid></uid>
      <gid></gid>
      <comment></comment>
      <home></home>
      <shell></shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000006</key>
      <login># unless you have changed lookupd's configuration.</login>
      <password></password>
      <uid></uid>
      <gid></gid>
      <comment></comment>
      <home></home>
      <shell></shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000007</key>
      <login>##</login>
      <password></password>
      <uid></uid>
      <gid></gid>
      <comment></comment>
      <home></home>
      <shell></shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000008</key>
      <login>unknown</login>
      <password>*</password>
      <uid>-3</uid>
      <gid>-3</gid>
      <comment>Unknown User</comment>
      <home>/nohome</home>
      <shell>/noshell</shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000009</key>
      <login>nobody</login>
      <password>*</password>
      <uid>-2</uid>
      <gid>-2</gid>
      <comment>Unprivileged User</comment>
      <home>/nohome</home>
      <shell>/noshell</shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000010</key>
      <login>root</login>
      <password>*</password>
      <uid>0</uid>
      <gid>0</gid>
      <comment>System Administrator</comment>
      <home>/var/root</home>
      <shell>/bin/tcsh</shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000011</key>
      <login>daemon</login>
      <password>*</password>
      <uid>1</uid>
      <gid>1</gid>
      <comment>System Services</comment>
      <home>/var/root</home>
      <shell>/noshell</shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

    <user>
      <key>000012</key>
      <login>www</login>
      <password>*</password>
      <uid>70</uid>
      <gid>70</gid>
      <comment>World Wide Web Server</comment>
      <home>/Library/WebServer</home>
      <shell>/noshell</shell>
      <last_mod></last_mod>
      <passwd_min_life></passwd_min_life>
      <passwd_max_life></passwd_max_life>
      <passwd_exp_warn></passwd_exp_warn>
      <passwd_exp_disable></passwd_exp_disable>
      <passwd_disable></passwd_disable>
      <reserved></reserved>
      <is_shadow></is_shadow>
    </user>

  </userdb>

##
# User Database
# 
# Note that this file is consulted when the system is running in single-user
# mode.  At other times this information is handled by lookupd.  By default,
# lookupd gets information from NetInfo, so this file will not be consulted
# unless you have changed lookupd's configuration.
##
unknown:*:-3:-3:Unknown User:/nohome:/noshell
nobody:*:-2:-2:Unprivileged User:/nohome:/noshell
root:*:0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/tcsh
daemon:*:1:1:System Services:/var/root:/noshell
www:*:70:70:World Wide Web Server:/Library/WebServer:/noshell
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