From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 21:22:38 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: sys-user.eclass: add a sys-user_modify() function.
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.michael.orlitzky.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4b1c465944c3722edb6c24016663ad7b7b15e553;p=mjo-overlay.git

sys-user.eclass: add a sys-user_modify() function.
---

diff --git a/eclass/sys-user.eclass b/eclass/sys-user.eclass
index 92c7829..b90b590 100644
--- a/eclass/sys-user.eclass
+++ b/eclass/sys-user.eclass
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # This eclass does most of the work for the sys-user/ packages that
 # supply system user accounts.
 
-# Needed for egetshell and egethome
+# Needed for egetshell and egethome.
 inherit user
 
 EXPORT_FUNCTIONS pkg_pretend src_unpack src_configure src_compile src_install src_test pkg_preinst pkg_postinst pkg_prerm
@@ -105,6 +105,22 @@ sys-user_create() {
 }
 
 
+sys-user_modify() {
+	# Modify the existing user named $SYS_USER_NAME to match the values
+	# contained in the following variables:
+	#
+	#  * SYS_USER_UID
+	#  * SYS_USER_SHELL
+	#  * SYS_USER_HOME
+	#  * SYS_USER_GROUPS
+	#
+	usermod ${SYS_USER_UID:+--uid }"${SYS_USER_UID}" \
+			${SYS_USER_GROUPS:+--append --groups }"${SYS_USER_GROUPS}" \
+			--shell "${SYS_USER_SHELL}" \
+			--home-dir "${SYS_USER_HOME}" \
+			"${SYS_USER_NAME}"
+}
+
 sys-user_pkg_pretend() {
 	# Sanity checks that would otherwise run code in global scope.
 	#
@@ -226,8 +242,9 @@ sys-user_pkg_preinst() {
 		fi
 
 		# The user already exists, so all we have left to do is to try
-		# to append SYS_USER_GROUPS to the existing groups.
-		usermod --append --groups "${SYS_USER_GROUPS}" \
+		# to append SYS_USER_GROUPS to the existing groups. The home
+		# dir, shell, and uid should all match already.
+		sys-user_modify \
 			|| die "failed to append groups to existing user ${SYS_USER_NAME}"
 	fi
 }