Ignited image - groups disappear?

[jmb]

I'm working on the Ignite process, and building a good usable image. On a recently Ignited server, it appears that three custom "default" logins, that we need to be part of the image, had their associated groups "go away". When I list logins, there is no group shown for them. The standard users are fine.

I don't believe these users could have been defined in the image without a group id. Any ideas?

[Steven E. Protter]

While building a golden images, /etc/groups is temporarily modified. This makes groups appear numeric for a fixed periodof time during the build.

/etc/groups may be a default exclusion in the godlen image creation process. This or other files are commonly excluded.

All of this can be found by tracing the variouis configuration files on the ignite server that start with the INDEX file.

SEP

[jmb]

I believe I've tracked it back to the actual 'make_sys_image' script, which does a Level2_Reset on /etc/group by assigning from /usr/newconfig.

As far as I can tell, that's where the problem occurs, as compared to some of the other scripts downstream.

So, my next question is - which is better: modifying the script itself, or modifying the newconfig version of /etc/group? Should I leave Ignite pretty much alone, or rather leave /usr/newconfig alone...? There are other files that will need to be handled in a similar manner...