Re: [ALFS Trac] #1739: Reorder or remove deleting the lfs user

#1739: Reorder or remove deleting the lfs user
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 Reporter:  xry111  |       Owner:  Pierre Labastie
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:
Component:  jhalfs  |     Version:  GIT
 Severity:  normal  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:          |
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Comment (by Douglas R. Reno):

 Replying to [comment:3 Pierre Labastie]:
 > I've come to this:
 > - If a user with name ''lfs'' exists on the system:
 >   -  rename that user to ''lfsxxx'', and move its home to
 '''/home/lfs.XXX'''. This means that if a user with name ''lfsxxx'' is
 already on the system, we must delete it, possibly after asking  (but I do
 not like that, because it means jhalfs cannot be run unattended).
 >   -  create a new ''lfs'' user with book instructions
 >   -  leave everything as is, but warn at the end of the jhalfs run that
 there is a new user and the old one has changed name
 >
 > - if there is no user with name ''lfs'':
 >   -  create it with book instructions
 >   -  leave it as is, but warn at the end of the jhalfs run that there is
 a new user
 >
 > Please comment...

 This approach sounds really good to me. I think we probably shouldn't ask
 since most users shouldn't have anything in /home/lfs other than the files
 we create, and we want jhalfs to be completely automated. A lot of us
 editors that use jhalfs for testing LFS have a 'lfs' user kept around, so
 this would probably be the best way for us editors as well. I think a
 notification at the end would be helpful as well

 This also fixes the issue that I run into when building a new system where
 I don't realize that the lfs user hasn't been created yet, and jhalfs
 fails because of it
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