ntpd as ntpd user question

[Niclas Zeising]

On 07/21/18 19:56, RW wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 11:14:45 -0600
> Ian Lepore wrote:
> 
> 
>> There's a "pre-world" stage of mergemaster (-Fp option I think) which
>> isn't needed often, but one of the times it is needed is apparently
>> when new user ids are added.
> 
> I wish mergemaster had an option to just add new users and groups,
> rather than merging the files.

etcupdate is usually pretty good at automatically merge updates to files 
without user interaction, even when the files are locally edited as 
well.  For instance, I had no problem merging /etc/master.passwd and 
/etc/group for the ntp change.
Regards
-- 
Niclas