non fedora-usermgmt user creation

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Tue Mar 7 14:25:48 UTC 2006


On Monday 06 March 2006 23:59, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:48 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > The problem I have with the UserCreation page in the wiki is it
> > > provides no non fedora-usermgmt creation alternatives.  And since
> > > fedora-usermgmt is not yet in wide adoption I'm very hesitant to use
> > > it.
> >
> > Which in the scope of Fedora Extras is a small/non issue, IMO.  AFAIK,
> > fedora-usermgmt acts (almost) exactly like the usual useradd when it's
> > not specially configured by end-users.
>
> It also makes the specfile immediately fedora-centric. The second I used
> foedora-usermgmt for the puppet package, I had a request to make it
> build for CentOS again. It's also not clear to me if replacing something
> as central as part of shadow-utils has other ramifications, e.g. for
> configuration mgmt tools.
>
> David
http://centos.karan.org/ has  extras packages built for centos  so there is no 
reason  why you cant use fedora-usermgmt  and have it work :)

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Regards

Dennis Gilmore,  RHCE
Proud Australian




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