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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:51:08 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
>Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running "mkpasswd
>-d" in such a case would be useful. 

This is just an issue for first time installations, right?  AFAICT,
/etc/passwd should not be produced if there is already a /etc/passwd.
Ditto /etc/group.

I guess the best solution is to present the user with several options

1) Create /etc/passwd using local accounts?

2) Create /etc/passwd using domain accounts?

3) Create /etc/passwd using local and domain accounts?

4) Don't create /etc/passwd

Then we have to remember what the user wanted.

cgf

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