[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] sss_groupmod

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Mon Mar 9 18:42:37 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 16:49 +0100, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> This patch adds the last userspace admin tool - sss_groupmod. It allows
> nesting of groups (i.e. adding a group as a member of another group) and
> modifying its GID.
> 
> GID (and related UID) modification by the tools is something I wanted to
> bring up for discussion on the list. The sysdb API provides ways to do
> that, the InfoPipe methods use a name that makes it cleat that it's
> discouraged. So what about the userspace tools? Stephen suggested on IRC
> that we could leave the functionality there, but not expose the option
> by providing a custom usage() instead of the popt-autogenerated. I like
> his idea..opinions?

Yes, I would like to conceal the options to modify/set the uid/gid.

Simo.

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