[Freeipa-devel] command-line arguments

[Pete Rowley]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 09:10 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>   
>> The command-line tools now are more like beefy unit tests. Some of them 
>> are very simple so probably don't require a lot more work, but others 
>> do, particularly the ones to add and modify users.
>>
>> What attributes do we want to allow and/or require? I picked more or 
>> less at random when writing it originally, using luseradd as a loose model.
>>
>> Currently it requires first name, lats name and uid. Optional are gecos 
>> and home directory.
>>     
>
> Requiring First and Last names kills service users which have none, I'd
> make that optional
>   
And set the required sn to the uid - really this kind of fix up should 
be the domain of the TBD schema fixup plugin.
>   
>   
>> - Can we override the uidNumber?
>>     
> IMO, we shouldn't, is there any reason why an admin should specify an
> uidNumber on creation ?
>
>   
Yes, they want something different than auto-gen would provide, such as 
a uid in a specific range to work with existing scripts etc.  I don't 
see a good reason to prevent this and I don't think it is for us to 
decide the site policy.


-- 
Pete

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