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On Thursday 15 June 2006 21:36, Mike Kelly wrote: |
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> As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was |
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> going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a |
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> package (for example, the cron user), to all the passwd backends |
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> listsed in /etc/nsswitch.conf. |
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nss is glibc-only, so such a solution would be inadequate |
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> However, in consultation with some |
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> folks, it seems that what may be more desirable is to just add |
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> users/groups to the local files/compat backends instead, and not make |
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> any changes to the remote databases. |
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you mean update only /etc/passwd and /etc/groups ? modifying those files |
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directly should only happen as a fallback when all other methods fail |
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> Does anyone have any strong notion of any cases where it would be |
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> excessively bad for the package manager to try adding to, say, the |
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> nss_nis backend in addition to the nss_files backend, or cases where |
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> that would be a strongly desired behavior? |
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users should be added via the normal system utilities so you dont have to care |
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about the underlying storage |
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perhaps making the account creation by configurable but with sane defaults |
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setup for those of us who dont care |
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-mike |
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