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Hello, |
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This was posted earlier on -dev [1], but it was recommended that I ask |
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this here as well: |
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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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[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/39450/ |
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Mike Kelly |
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"Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others." |