Question: When running MBSE under Linux as users are being added to the
system is the main information such as the username being stored in it's own file or in the /etc/passwd file?

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Hello, Phil Taylor.
On 10/8/19 10:59 PM you wrote:

Question: When running MBSE under Linux as users are being added
to the system is the main information such as the username being
stored in it's own file or in the /etc/passwd file?

The short answer is, both. The username is added to /etc/passwd (& /etc/shadow
if applicable) as well as the MBSE users.data file.

Andrew

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Hello Phil!

Tuesday October 08 2019 22:59, you wrote to All:

Question: When running MBSE under Linux as users are being added to
the system is the main information such as the username being stored
in it's own file or in the /etc/passwd file?

Both, when a new user is added first it is added into passwd having set up a home directory, with a special shell command then it sets up the user in it own
databases.

The directory used for users is in /opt/mbse/home if using the default PREFIX settings as defined using configure during build.

Personally as I can run multi boot partitions across different drives I use /home/mbse instead of /opt/mbse. Note if you do this you MUST using a text editor change SETUP.sh before use and replace all instances of /opt with /home



Vince

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