Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm@ATrpms.net) said:
usermod run somewhere else. It's been done before. Obviously, the answer is 'don't break anything in the stock passwd file, and don't add things to it.'
Yes, but where? And do you really want to record all diffs from passwd over time into usermod statements?
Over 'the history of the world',there have been roughly *two* changes. I really don't think it's a big deal. For example, changing the homedir of ftp was done in either wu-ftpd or vsftpd at the time.
Bill