Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 01:39:33 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: adam@FreeBSD.org, pst@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cnews fails if user "news" doesn't exist Message-ID: <199504180839.BAA03357@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199504180818.BAA11997@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> (rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com)
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* > But a "make world" doesn't update master.passwd, so we still need to
* > do something about this from the ports standpoint (for people who did
* > a source upgrade). Any ideas?
*
* Use grep -q to find out if the user and the group exists, if it does not
* fail the make and tell the user to add the news accounts???
I was thinking more about using "id". The grep idea (I assume you are
saying we should search /etc/passwd, right?) may fail when the site is
using NIS.
I guess we can put this in the pre-fetch target for all our news ports
(so the user can solve the problem first). Something like:
#!/bin/sh
if ! id -u news > /dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "You need an account \"news\" to install this package."
if [ `id -u` != 0 ]; then
echo "Please become root and either use \"adduser\" or try \"make\" again."
exit 1
fi
echo "Let me start an adduser for you...."
sleep 5
adduser
if ! id -u news > /dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "Hey! I told you to add an account \"news\"!"
echo "Well, I'm giving up now, but please try again, okay."
exit 1
fi
fi
What do you guys think?
Satoshi
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