Re: How to use temporary files?

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On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 09:07:00AM -0700, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> FYI: You should use useradd (groupadd) to portably create accounts.
> useradd will fail if the account exists.  You still have an issue: 
> if there's a chance the account was created by something else, you 
> need a way to know whether userdel (groupdel) it on package
> removal - same problem you have now with manually adding entries.

Hmmm. Perhaps userdel ought to have a flag which would remove the user
account only if the GECOS field matched a given string.

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Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>


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