Re: Editing fields in /etc/passwd

[david . nelson]

Hi Frank,

This looks like a good candidate for
this case.

Thanks for the lead,

         /\/elson

Frank Ranner <franner@NOSPAM.webone.com.au>
Sent by: help-cfengine-bounces+david.nelson=ni.com@gnu.org

07/31/2005 05:50 AM

To	help-cfengine@gnu.org
cc
Subject	Re: Editing fields in /etc/passwd

David E. Nelson wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Looking through 'editfiles', I'm not seeing an easy way to edit a
single 
> field in /etc/passwd - I need to change the primary group for one
> account.  I can't just replace the entire line since the Gecos
and home 
> dir aren't consistent across systems.  Any ideas?
> 
> It'd be nice if there was an edit command that used a sed-like syntax
> that allowed backreferences.
> 
> Thanks,
>      /\/elson
> 

Use 'usermod' in a shellcommands section. You could set a class based on
a grep for the old contents, then use that class to trigger the usermod
command.

Regards
Frank Ranner

_______________________________________________
Help-cfengine mailing list
Help-cfengine@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine