[Pkg-shadow-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Do not fail on missing files in /etc/, create them instead.

[Mike Frysinger]

On 20 Mar 2015 13:49, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> passwd, shadow, group, gshadow etc. can be managed via nss -
> e.g. system default accounts can be specified using nss_altfiles,
> rather than in /etc/. Thus despite having default accounts, these
> files can be missing on disk and thus should be opened with O_CREATE
> whenever they are attempted to be opened in O_RDWR modes.

are there any cases after your change where pw_open is called w/O_RDWR and not 
O_CREAT ?  if not, might make sense to just change the API so O_RDWR implies
file creation ...
-mike
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