non fedora-usermgmt user creation

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 13:19 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:37:31 +0100, Christian.Iseli at licr.org wrote:
> 
> > > Transfer this scenario from Core ("sendmail" package) to Core ("shadow-utils"
> > > package) plus an Extras package, which the admin must configure at
> > > install-time to adjust its install-time behaviour (i.e. choose the base uid)
> > > for the remaining packages to be installed. Do you see the problem?
> > 
> > Not really.  Admin who wants fedora-usermgmt functionality does:
> >  1. Install minimal system
> >  2. Install fedora-usermgmt and configure it
> >  3. Install rest of the packages
> 
> Tiresome, since it triples the number of steps needed to install a system.

Nope - These are the same steps admins will always have to go through to
configure any shared setup in a network, independent of fedora-usermgmt.

Think about automounting, yp/nis, nsswitch.conf, rpm's netshare path.
You can't avoid setting them up midst of installation, if you are using
them.

Wrt. this, fedora-usermgmt only is an additional source of
trouble/error/problems, adding additionally obstacles.

> No. The 'setup(fedora-usermgmt)' virtual capability in the dependency
> chain can be used to pull in a customised configuration early enough.

== making it mandatory.

Ralf