And lo, upon Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 10:03:38PM +0200, Johannes Puschmann spaketh thusly:
> Hi!
> I poking around hours with a specfile.
> I must add a new User/group and will verify that the UID/GID is unique
> and if not print a error message whats going on.
>
>
> Is there a better way as grep the /etc/passwd such as getent?
> I have tried getent, but when the uid is free, rpm fails with bad exit code.
>
Don't forget to consider that not everyone uses /etc/passwd. There are
a lot of people who use systems like NIS instead, so simply searching
through the file /etc/passwd may not be enough (and using useradd/groupadd
may not be desired by the user).
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Aaron Gaudio prothontar @ tarnation.dyndns.org
http://tarnation.dyndns.org/~aaron
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