non fedora-usermgmt user creation

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 7 15:11:51 UTC 2006


Dennis Gilmore wrote:

>On Monday 06 March 2006 23:59, David Lutterkort wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:48 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
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>>>Mike McGrath wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>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
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>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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Except only 26 packages in FE use it.  0 packages in core use it AFAIK. 
We're re-inventing the wheel and I just don't get why.  When systems
admins have UID conflicts, they have to fix them.  That's all there is
too it.

    -Mike




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