Re: [PATCH 1/4 branch usrmove] deal common part of etc passwd in 99base

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On 12/26/2011 12:58 PM, Cong Wang wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 12/25/2011 07:49 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 at 08:04 GMT, Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> ssh module will need root user in /etc/passwd, so add root and nobody
>>>> to /etc/passwd in 99base instead of nfs module
>>>
>>> Huh? Even for who don't use either ssh module or nfs module??
>>>
>>> I think you just need to copy these two lines into your ssh module...
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your review.
>>
>> in 90mdraid module there's words in its comments about passwd, so there
>> might be more modules need passwd.
> 
> But there are still more modules that don't need passwd, right?

>

>>
>> Dealing with same thing in multi module is not good, not only duplicate
>> code, but also they could cause conflict. Ie. nfs set root home dir to /
>> but we need /root, if nfs module added after ssh-client the home dir of
>> root will be /.
> 
> If you don't want to duplicate the code, make it a function (maybe in
> dracut-function?),
> putting it in base module is confusing.


Scratching head.. I'm feeling bad to add same user multi-times,  Yes not
all modules need passwd, but I still think it is a base thing.

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