[PATCH conductor] Fix aeolus user home directory on upgrade
Justin Clift
jclift at redhat.com
Wed Jul 11 19:50:30 UTC 2012
On 11/07/2012, at 11:37 PM, John Eckersberg wrote:
<snip>
> I guess in the specific edge case that we:
>
> 1) Are upgrading
>
> 2) Already have an aeolus user, with home directory /var/aeolus
>
> 3) Already have a new enough version of aeolus-configure installed so
> that the `aeolus-services` script is available to stop/start all
> services (as opposed to aeolus-restart-services which is useless in
> this situation). Looks like this is only in aeolus-configure >= 2.6.0-1.
>
> In this case, we can stop services, change the home directory with
> usermod, and start the services.
Probably worth trying. We seem to have backed ourselves into a bit of
a corner with this one. Oh well, things to remember for next time. :)
> Alternatively, we could probably do something nasty like sed
> /etc/passwd. I have no idea how badly that may screw things up though.
> I'll go look into that a bit right now...
Will this work for environments using network based auth mechanisms?
Suspecting "no" there. :/
+ Justin
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