non fedora-usermgmt user creation

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Thu Mar 23 18:52:19 UTC 2006


Le jeudi 23 mars 2006 à 13:19 +0100, Michael Schwendt a écrit :
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:16:29 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've tried to get out of the fedora-usermgmt, if the fedora-usermgmt
> > analysis is correct (need to assign fixed ids in an admin-defined range)
> > wouldn't the right thing just be to get a flag added in upstream useradd
> > to support this ? No matter how hard we try a wrapper is and always be a
> > PITA. So shouldn't the energy be focused on getting the change wher it
> > belongs, in useradd proper ?
> 
> And into the installer and into kickstart then, too?

Everywhere.
A wrapper is ok for prototyping, but at this point I feel either we need
to declare the experiment successful, and get the functionality in the
tools themselves, or recognize we are going nowhere.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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