Patch: Solaris packages don't create privsep user or group

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Jim Knoble wrote:

> Circa 2002-Jul-16 10:50:30 +1000 dixit Darren Tucker:
>
> : Darren Tucker wrote:
> : > Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> : > > Hmm.. Does this work with JumpStart?  Can you add users at install time?
> : >
> : > I didn't even consider that. We use jumpstart to build machines but
> : > don't install sshd until after the first boot (ie not in the
> : > finish_script). I'll try to dig up some spare hardware to try it.
> :
> : OK I can confirm that it does NOT work with Jumpstart. useradd and
> : groupadd try to modify the read-only files on the jumpstart NFS image.
> :
> : Should we:
> : (a) move them to the /etc/init.d/openssh script same as the keygens
> : (b) attempt to hand-hack $PKG_INSTALL_ROOT/etc/passwd
> : (c) chroot tricks?
> : (d) ?
> :
> : I prefer (a).
>
> My preference would be:
>
>   (d) Move them to an 'openssh-setup' script that does the following:
>

Admin required to manually run it, or a form of SysV 'first time' startup
script?

- Ben