non fedora-usermgmt user creation

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Mar 7 13:07:28 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 06:47 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> David Lutterkort wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:48 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > 
> >>Mike McGrath wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>The problem I have with the UserCreation page in the wiki is it provides
> >>>no non fedora-usermgmt creation alternatives.  And since fedora-usermgmt
> >>>is not yet in wide adoption I'm very hesitant to use it.
> >>
> >>Which in the scope of Fedora Extras is a small/non issue, IMO.  AFAIK, 
> >>fedora-usermgmt acts (almost) exactly like the usual useradd when it's 
> >>not specially configured by end-users.
> > 
> > 
> > It also makes the specfile immediately fedora-centric.
> 
> This is *Fedora* Extras afterall.  (-:
Wrong. Your systems are not in an "all Fedora network".

IMO using fedora-usermgmt must be banned from RPMs and should remain a
100% transparent run-time option to the standard useradmin tools to
sysadmins who really want it.

Ralf





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