Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Enrico Scholz]

Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> writes:

> vservers and chroots? Is this what this is all about? I'd say whoever
> setups vservers and chroots *himself* and keeps different passwd/group
> files across them should be able to deal with this.

I did this. And it was a pain to deal with it. 'fedora-usermgmt' solved
this once and forever.


> And this is really a very, tiny, infinitesimal small group of users.

Dunno; but this group is non-empty.


>> 'fedora-usermgmt' deals both with users who must have predictable
>> uids, who need predictable uids under some circumstances and who
>> never need predictable uids (although: say never "never"). Its flaws
>> (causes lot of discussion, is proprietary, nobody else uses it) are
>> of non-technical nature and negligible and I do not see why it should
>> not be used for all users.
>
> That's your POV. Exactly a year ago there was the same discussion
> about it draining brain power and volunteer time.

Yes; there posted lot of people too who never took a look at
fedora-usermgmt... :(


> Since we can't count it, it needs to be weighted on a case by case
> basis.

Why not use 'fedora-usermgmt'?



Enrico
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