augeas useradd

using augeas to add a user to the system

The scenario is that users are controlled by sssd and you want to add a user locally for those times when your connection to your password backend goes down. Useradd won't let you do it though, cause the user already exists. I figured augeas would be the perfect way to do that but I kept hitting a problem, augeas would fail.


augtool> save
error: Failed to execute command
saving failed (run 'print /augeas//error' for details)
augtool> print /augeas//error
/augeas/files/etc/passwd/error = "put_failed"
/augeas/files/etc/passwd/error/path = "/files…

augeas useradd