non fedora-usermgmt user creation
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Mar 8 16:11:52 UTC 2006
Enrico Scholz wrote:
> rdieter at math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes:
>
>
>>>>Yes? That's the functionality I suggested, just expressed with a
>>>>different shell syntax. Combine something like the above and again,
>>>>_no_ dependencies on fedora-usermgmt in packages and I'm satisfied.
>>>
>>>Sorry, that's a point where I insist on: when a Fedora Extras package
>>>uses fedora-usermgmt, then it MUST have the corresponding 'Requires(...):
>>>fedora-usermgmt'.
>>>Creating undeterministic behavior by randomly executing plain 'useradd'
>>>or 'fedora-useradd' is not my idea of package management.
>>
>>It's not undeterministic. You've claimed that fedora-useradd is
>>*exactly* the same as regular useradd when not configured by the
>>sysadmin. So when/if fedora-usermgmt is installed or not shouldn't
>>make a difference, right? (-:
>
>
> Ok, let's look at the following %package list for a kickstart (or any
> other from-scratch) installation
OK, so I must've mis-read/mis-remembered past claims that
fedora-usermgmt in it's unconfigured state was the same as useradd.
-- Rex
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