Re: [gentoo-server] Adding System Users for Ebuilds

[Paul Kölle]

Mike Kelly wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This was posted earlier on -dev [1], but it was recommended that I ask
> this here as well:
>
> As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was
> going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a
> package (for example, the cron user), to all the passwd backends
> listsed in /etc/nsswitch.conf. However, in consultation with some
> folks, it seems that what may be more desirable is to just add
> users/groups to the local files/compat backends instead, and not make
> any changes to the remote databases.
Depends, personally I could see benefit from being able to choose where
to add users/groups.

So:
/etc/nsswitch.conf

passwd files ldap
...

I might want to add system users to ldap to have them available
everywhere. This would require configurable skripts (per backend) for
adding accounts (work). Assuming people using distibuted account systems
know what they're doing, they probably prefer populating the system
upfront or keeping system accounts locally.

cheers
 Paul
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