non fedora-usermgmt user creation
Michael Schwendt
bugs.michael at gmx.net
Wed Mar 22 12:22:19 UTC 2006
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:12:53 +0100, Christian.Iseli at licr.org wrote:
>
> enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de said:
> > 2. Using fedora-usermgmt is optional, not a requirement.
>
> Which is why it should be packaged as a replacement/alternative
> of plain useradd for those that actually want it, and not as an additional
> package Require'd by FE packages (as has been mentioned several times in this
> thread)
If you don't make it a requirement, it becomes unreliable at installation
time, since it may or may not be available prior to a package which would
use it in its scriptlets. The bad thing about that would be that an
administrator, who does have enabled fedora-usermgmt to remap uids/gids,
would need to ensure proper installation order himself.
> > 3. nobody will be hurted; fedora-usermgmt is minimal, non-intrusive and
> > without bad technical sideeffects
>
> Famous Last Words (tm)
I agree with that. This thread has entered sort of a deadlock, because it
loops back and forth between multiple issues. After plenty of postings,
somebody still comes and denies that there is a problem that
fedora-usermgmt solves.
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