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From: Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to force homedir on enewuser
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:51:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200657114.2500.1.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801180641.14847.vapier@gentoo.org>


On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 06:41 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> right, there is no way (by design) to force these settings on an already 
> created user.  if the old path really truly should not be the old value, you 
> can do something like this in pkg_setup:
> if [[ $(egetent passwd user | cut -d: -f6) == "/the/old/path" ]] ; then
> 	eerror "please run usermod -m -d /new/path ......"
> 	die "moocow"
> fi

You should also ensure that ${ROOT} is /

Thanks

Roy

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-18 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-18  2:46 [gentoo-dev] How to force homedir on enewuser Hanno Böck
2008-01-18  8:12 ` Marius Mauch
2008-01-18 11:41   ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-18 11:51     ` Roy Marples [this message]

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