non fedora-usermgmt user creation

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 09:17 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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.

Then think this to the end: The majority of all users will not use it. 
The others with have to struggle with it.

... except of cause that it pollutes the Fedora specs.

Ralf