Commits on Jul 10, 2014

1. compose: Migrate content of /etc/{passwd,group} to /usr/lib more sanely …

   I had an epiphany today while working on
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098304 - I realized that
   I can just do an install, and then copy over everything except the
   root entries from /etc/passwd into /usr/lib/passwd.
   
   No need for a patched shadow-utils.  No need to modify the
   /etc/nsswitch.conf before doing the install root.  It totally works.
   I have no idea why I originally overcomplicated this.
   
   The thing that sucks a bit about this code is that I have to drop to
   the FILE * APIs so that I can use the glibc APIs for processing
   group/shadow.
   
   Also, the way I deduplicated the code paths for processing
   passwd/group is crappy, but I think it's better than duplicating them
   (as systemd-sysusers does).
   
   The good: We don't need a two-step RPM transaction, we don't need
             a patch for shadow-utils, it's just saner
   The bad: Code is not the most beautiful?  Not really bad.
   The ugly: I didn't think of this in the first place and spent
             months beating my head against the wall of shadow-utils...

   

   cgwalters committed Jul 10, 2014
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