RE: /etc/profile, mk[passwd|group|group_l_d] messages

["Morrison, John" <John dot Morrison at uk dot experian dot com>]

Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> John,
> 
> I like having 3 separate messages.
> Perhaps you could add an introduction such as
>        echo "Your group is currently \"mkpasswd\". This indicates
> that .." 

Good idea :)

> The first two cases should never occur, except in rare cases of
> postinstall screw up or if the files get deleted somehow.
> 
> The last case is the norm for domain users.
> It is correct that the message can be safely ignored.
> Just a thought: you could consider displaying it only once,
> e.g. by sed'ing /etc/group to change mkgroup_l_d to mkgroup-l-d.
> Neither /etc/passwd nor /etc/group are complete (because the
> primary domain controller is not contacted during postinstall).
> So the message should advise but not mandate to rebuild both.
> echo "The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files should be completed." echo
> "See the man pages .. 
> 
> 
> Pierre

Hows this...?  (edit inline)

case "`id -ng`" in
mkpasswd )
  echo "Your group is currently \"`id -ng`\".  This indicates that
  echo "the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt."
  echo "See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run"
  echo "mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd"
  echo "mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group"
  echo "as appropriate.  Note that the -d switch is necessary for"
  echo "domain users."
  ;;
mkgroup )
  echo "The /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) files need to be rebuilt."
  echo "See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run"
  echo "mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd"
  echo "mkgroup  -l [-d] > /etc/group"
  echo "as appropriate.  Note that the -d switch is necessary for"
  echo "domain users."
  ;;
mkgroup_l_d )
  echo "The /etc/group file doesn't contain the domain groups."
  echo "See the man page for mkgroup and then, for example, run"
  echo "mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group"
  echo "as appropriate."
  echo
  echo "You can safely ignore this message"

  # only display the above once
  cat /etc/group | sed -e 's/mkgroup_l_d/mkgroup-l-d/g' > /etc/group.new
  mv /etc/group /etc/group.mkgroup_l_d
  mv /etc/group.new /etc/group
  ;;
esac

J.


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