Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: split user passwd array Author: davidlee Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24257,24264#msg-24264
Your design specification wants to be able both to add new users and to edit existing users. We are tempted to think of the former as being fully-fledged lines to be added, but the latter as individual fields to be adjusted. But it is worth going back a step and considering the underlying data itself as a set of fields, including when adding it. So perhaps rather than starting from: vars: "pw" string => "username1:x:1101:1101:user name:/home/user:/bin/bash"; "pw" string => "username2:x:1102:1101:user name:/home/user:/bin/bash"; consider starting from the basic data itself, something like: vars: "username1" string => "x"; "username1" string => "1101"; "username1" string => "1101"; "username1" string => "user name 1"; "username1" string => "/home/username1"; "username1" string => "/bin/bash"; # repeat for other users Admittedly that looks a more verbose starting point. But it is still clear, and cleanly defines your data in its logical form. At the point where you lead up to promising that user entries exist at all (your "append_passwd_starting()") you assemble those arrays into lines; at the point where you lead up to promising particular field values are set (your "set_user_field()" your data is already fine-grained enough to specify the exact fields you wish. (A full working solution is beyond the scope of this email. But I hope the above sketch gives an idea of another way of approaching these promises.) _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
