Re: [cpx] How good is CPX at preserving "non-standard" information?

[Rus Berrett <rberrett@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Bill Meier wrote:
>
> Subject: [cpx] How good is CPX at preserving "non-standard" information?
>
> If I set some attributes of a user that are different from the defaults, 
> say make his home directory something different, will that cause problems?
> 
> I assume CPX isn't going to just go and blow all those changes away...

Platform settings (such as is found in /etc/passwd or /etc/group for
example) will always be honored by CPX.  CPX performs sanity checks on
system files to keep its own xml settings file (/usr/local/etc/cpx.conf)
in sync with platform.  Were you to manually edit your /etc/group file 
and add a user to the 'ftp' group, the next time you access CPX said 
change would be imported into the CPX config file.


> 
> But, I assume if I edit that user with CPX, I risk having that reset? Or 
> will CPX also preserve it in that case?

CPX doesn't care where you put your users in the file structure.  It
presumes some defaults when adding a new user, not sure if those are 
hardcoded or are read out of /etc/adduser.conf (if -e adduser.conf).


> 
> I have a number of accounts on my old server, where forcing people to 
> /home/user doesn't work in their models.

this shouldn't be a problem in CPX afaik.

--rus.


> 
> Bill
> 

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Rus Berrett                                                    NTT/Verio
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