Re: non fedora-usermgmt user creation

[Michael Schwendt <bugs michael gmx net>]

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:12:53 +0100, Christian Iseli licr org wrote:

> 
> enrico scholz informatik tu-chemnitz de said:
> > 2. Using fedora-usermgmt is optional, not a requirement.
> 
> Which is why it should be packaged as a replacement/alternative
> of plain useradd for those that actually want it, and not as an additional 
> package Require'd by FE packages (as has been mentioned several times in this 
> thread)

If you don't make it a requirement, it becomes unreliable at installation
time, since it may or may not be available prior to a package which would
use it in its scriptlets. The bad thing about that would be that an
administrator, who does have enabled fedora-usermgmt to remap uids/gids,
would need to ensure proper installation order himself.

> > 3. nobody will be hurted; fedora-usermgmt is minimal, non-intrusive and
> >    without bad technical sideeffects 
>
> Famous Last Words (tm)

I agree with that. This thread has entered sort of a deadlock, because it
loops back and forth between multiple issues. After plenty of postings,
somebody still comes and denies that there is a problem that
fedora-usermgmt solves.