On Thursday 15 October 2009 12:48:50 Peter Stuge wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > I'm having problems again with groupadd,
> > >
> > > Maybe it's a problem with eutils.eclass? If it's inherited then it's
> > > fair to expect that all it's functions will work. How to solve this
> > > for user database changes that want to call programs in shadow?
> >
> > there is no problem with eutils.eclass
> 
> Because it is not intended to function for stage2? Or because it is
> intended to assume that groupadd and friends are available?

the release building tools have to make shadow available earlier for Linux 
targets

> But where is the problem? One idea is to provide another
> implementation of these commands than the one in shadow. If that's
> a good idea, then where should that implementation go?

this is a bad idea
-mike