Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 15:06:18 -0500 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Staging break user account modification in post-install Message-ID: <CAGBxaXmND2EfAUZBWqHC-836aMDUZvxErPM_wPETBj%2B7bnneUQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <527FE5A9.1010002@gmx.de> References: <CAGBxaXmhQ4J=YUsnKrgjn%2Bu=yxBU4MZhrKtR9wO5kOSwDx6N8Q@mail.gmail.com> <527FE5A9.1010002@gmx.de>
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On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 2:59 PM, olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2013-11-10 20:40, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > post-install is now called *BEFORE* users are created (before staging was > > added it was after)... looking at bsd.port.mk there seems no reasonable > > target that replaces post-install for this purpose. Namely I need to > lock > > the user account that was created and assign a default password to it. > > This is what I had that used to work: > > > > post-install: > > echo password|pw usermod user -h 0 2>/dev/null > > pw lock user > > Is the account always locked? > No it is locked/unlocked by a WebUI when ever the user needs to perform some task that is requires streaming stdio (i.e. the WebUI will say "To complete task X do the following in a terminal 'ssh user@localhost' and the WebUI will do what ever juggling is needed to make it so X is performed on the next login into user [including unlocking the account] when tsak X completes it locks the account [in reality we do it before] again). > If yes what is the difference to create a user without any password and > assigning '/usr/sbin/nologin' as shell? > > What happens to the account without staging if installed from a package? > Right now we are doing remote testing (different machine then the development one) via the port and thus have disabled pkg creation and thus need to do it before this.
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