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FS#14150 - Add functions to easily create Groups and Users during Installation

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Opened by Jud (judfilm) - Thursday, 09 April 2009, 09:12 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Friday, 05 March 2010, 21:11 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category AIF
Status Closed
Assigned To Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2009.02
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

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Add functions to easily create Groups and Users during Installation - mostly for Automatic install but could prove useful for Interactive. See attached code.
   groupsandusers.txt (2.4 KiB)
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Closed by  Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Friday, 05 March 2010, 21:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  this is overcomplicating things.
it's easier to manually script adduser/addgroup commands if you want to create new users and such, and that approach gives you total control over what happens
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Thursday, 09 April 2009, 20:09 GMT
I'm thinking code for this must exist already. maybe we can get a bash script from somewhere. I did some searching but couldn't find it immediately. Maybe you have more luck.

Btw did you code this? it looks quite advanced.
Comment by Jud (judfilm) - Monday, 13 April 2009, 10:37 GMT
I tried looking for code but nothing that seemed usable etc. So I took the plunge, it seems to work. How do I go about getting this ready for AIF? How do you see this fitting in?
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Monday, 13 April 2009, 20:34 GMT
Well, I'm not sure if it's really worth it to design/implement/maintain a solution where the user defines what he wants in a specific format, we have to parse that format, and then execute some things (basically generate a new "format", eg like in /etc/passwd).

I think it may be better if we let users just do some commands (useradd -foo -bar) themselves.
Comment by Stefan Wilkens (stefanwilkens) - Friday, 05 March 2010, 08:49 GMT
This seems more useful for either custom automated installations or deployment on a large scale. Most arch installations, however, tend to be singe user.

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