On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 10:26, Michael K. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Roland Käser wrote: > > shell. The only thing needed to change is to replace the "normal" > > useradd, usermod, userdel, groupadd, groupmod and groupdel by the ones > > shipped with samba. > > That's too LDAP-centric. It's good to make LDAP work better, but > don't do it at the expense of other, equally valid configurations. > Tools that take the system configuration into account are what you > really want. That will work with whatever configuration you have. > And considering the amount of work in the user tools that come by > default, I'd suggest modifying those rather than a wholesale switch > as the best option. There are fairly easy ways to make it work, though. One approach would be to use 'alternatives' and install shadow-utils binaries as 'useradd.files', LDAP utilities as 'useradd.ldap', etc. Or, take the 'fsck' approach and have a front-end program that determines which backend to use at runtime, and runs 'useradd.ldap' when LDAP is configured. Wil -- Wil Cooley wcooley nakedape cc Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc * * * * * * * Good, fast and cheap: Pick all 3! * * * * * * * * Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc *
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