non fedora-usermgmt user creation

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Mar 22 12:26:16 UTC 2006


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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.

How did the administrator enable fedora-usermgmt without installing it 
first?

Paul.




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