On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:43:18 +0100 Bernard Cafarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:42:35 -0700 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: > > > On 19:49 Wed 31 Oct , Bernard Cafarelli (voyageur) wrote: > > > 1.1 > > > net-misc/nxserver-freenx/nxserver-freenx-0.7.1.ebuild > > > > > > file : > > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/net-misc/nxserver-freenx/nxserver-freenx-0.7.1.ebuild?rev=1.1&view=markup > > > plain: > > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/net-misc/nxserver-freenx/nxserver-freenx-0.7.1.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain > > > > > pkg_postinst () { > > > usermod -s /usr/bin/nxserver nx || die "Unable to set > > > login shell of nx user!!" usermod -d ${NX_HOME_DIR} nx || die > > > "Unable to set home directory of nx user!!" > > > > This isn't safe with ROOT != / and it looks wrong too, you oughta > > be using enewuser for this stuff. > > > > Thanks, > > Donnie > > > > The problem is, enewuser can not be used to modify already existing > user accounts.This happens if another nxserver was installed before > (which uses the same account, but with different shell and home > directory). > > I'll fix ROOT handling in the meantime, this should be better: > usermod -s "${ROOT}"/usr/bin/nxserver nx > usermod -d "${ROOT}"{NX_HOME_DIR} nx Should it really? Wouldn't it modify /etc/passwd instead of the one in $ROOT, in which case it would actually be worse? Might be better to make it conditional on ROOT = /, and show a warning if ROOT != /, unless you can find a solution that is safe for ROOT != / Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
