bug in sidai/passwd-dist/passwdgen.py

This is to report a bug in Matt's very clever
password-distribution thing (but mostly to see if he's awake
:-)

The fragment of code below avoids extra work.  However: if
you add one or more hosts to the system, you *do* need to run
this thing!  i.e. the test below lies.

A workaround is to touch /etc/passwd on the passwd master.

Will

def passwdgen( cfg, opts, verbose = 0):

    ...

    # do we even need to bother?
    # nb. if it changes in the meantime, that's not a problem - will just mean
    # that it gets run an extra time
    link = os.path.join( dist_dir, 'LATEST' )
    last = utils.get_latest( link )
    stamp = passwdfile.need_update( last, dist_dir )

    if not stamp:
        if verbose:
            sys.stderr.write( 'Nothing to do this time.\n' )
        sys.exit(0)



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