rename fedora-usermgmt?
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Mon Mar 5 14:47:59 UTC 2007
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:36:01AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>> Fact is: fedora-usermgmt solves a (nitch) problem, regardless of
>> whether folks agree with it's implementation.
>>
>
> But the problem it solves is "lack of an official list of reserved system
> userids". When Fedora was a third-party repository, it could really do much
> about the official list, but now that we are fedora, we can.
>
> And particularly since the fedora-usermgmt approach is most problematic in
> enterprise environments, now's a good time to fix the problem rather than
> patch around it.
>
I might be alone here but... I've never once had a problem. Anything
that is going to be considered needs to completely replace useradd. Any
system that involves using both is faulty.
-Mike
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