Re: upgrading base-passwd

1996-11-26 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 23:55:00 PST Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Base-passwd could indeed be improved to merge entries in to an existing > password file. I think the maintainer (Philippe Troin) could use some > script help on this - he has his hands full just allocating UIDs and > GIDs.

Re: upgrading base-passwd

1996-11-24 Thread Bruce Perens
Base-passwd could indeed be improved to merge entries in to an existing password file. I think the maintainer (Philippe Troin) could use some script help on this - he has his hands full just allocating UIDs and GIDs. Guy Maor said he might be able to help with the script, but as Debian FTP archive

Re: upgrading base-passwd

1996-11-24 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996 17:35:28 EST Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What's the proper way to upgrade debian's base-passwd package? I > use unstable, and I've installed a new base-passwd a couple of times now, > but since /etc/passwd and /etc/group are conffiles, and I don't want to > mess up