[xen-tools] Re: Split --passwd into two new options?

[Steve Kemp]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:32:47PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> I omit --passwd on this Fedora system, and it doesn't seem to copy the 
> users to the new domU.  Is that a bug...?

  Sounds like it!

  You can test this manually by running:

    mkdir /tmp/test
    mkdir /tmp/test/etc
    /usr/lib/xen-tools/debian.d/60-copy-host-files /tmp/test

  You should be left with /tmp/test/etc/passwd with the accounts
 copied over.  (You'll also see an error about failure to read
 /etc/shadow if you run it as non-root, thats not a problem.)

  I guess what could be happening is that on your non-Debian system
 the users who've been added will have UIDs <1000.  The script tries
 to copy only non-system users, which it does by testing for UID.

  An alternative might be to copy over only users who have a UID
 not already in use in the new system.

Steve
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