[csw-maintainers] Creation of users and groups added to cswclassutils

Peter Bonivart bonivart at opencsw.org
Mon Feb 9 22:29:29 CET 2009


On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Fantastic, just what i was looking for yesterday.

I guess I should thank you since your dovecot scripts inspired me to do this.

> With the suggested pathname of /etc/opt/csw/[pkgname]/cswug path, the
> user account files are IMHO rather visible to the user, although a user
> doesn't need to interact with these files.
>
> What would you think about placing them somewhere more "hidden"?
> /opt/csw/share/cwug/[pkgname] or /var/opt/csw/... come to my mind. Just
> a suggestion though.

Not really sure I get why since passwd is world readable too..? Any
user can look at the complete system user/group db so why would we
attempt to hide our accounts?

Just read your reply to Phil...now I get your point. Should we suggest
another path then?

/var/opt/csw/[pkgname]/cswug

-- 
/peter



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