non fedora-usermgmt user creation

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Mar 8 15:17:53 UTC 2006


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:06 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> 
>>rc040203 at freenet.de (Ralf Corsepius) writes:
>>
>>
>>>>2. 'fedora-usermgmt' eases propagation of UIDs to NIS/LDAP servers.
>>>
>>>Well, it is just ONE way of doing it, but it is not "the only way to do
>>>it", nor is it "THE CORRECT way of doing it"
>>
>>Did I said something like this?
> 
> No, but it's what fedora-usermgmt does.
> 
> YOU are dictating uid ranges, YOU are fixing uids, you are forcing
> packagers to pollute their specs with YOUR proprietary stuff.

AFAIK, fedora-usermgmt does nothing different than usual useradd 
behavior until it is configured by local admins.  Nobody (other than the 
local admin) is dictating/forcing anything.

-- Rex




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