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On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 21:36 -0400, Mike Kelly wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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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. 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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> 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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bad == many places use a ro backend for auth w/ mysql/ldap/etc |
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Writing to the local files would be acceptable with me. I'm sure |
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someone will come up with an objection, though. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |