My /etc/group
has grown by adding new users as well as installing programs that have added their own user and/or group. The same is true for /etc/passwd
. Editing has now become a little cumbersome due to the lack of structure.
May I sort these files (e.g. by numerical id or alphabetical by name) without negative effect on the system and/or package managers?
I would guess that is does not matter but just to be sure I would like to get a 2nd opinion. Maybe root
needs to be the 1st line or within the first 1k lines or something?
The same goes for /etc/*shadow
.
Best Answer
You should be OK doing this: in fact, according to the article and reading the documentation, you can sort
/etc/passwd
and/etc/group
by UID/GID withpwck -s
andgrpck -s
, respectively.