On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:28:25AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > (enlarging the discussion again..:-)). See http://bugs.debian.org/134473 > > > > I'm CCing debian NIS packager (hello Miquel) to see what he think about > > > it. > > > [For the context, shadow packaging just changed into a team effort, and > > > we're doing massive bug triage] > > > > Well actually nowadays Mark Brown does most (the last few releases, > > all) of the work on NIS. > > > > But it's probably not a bad idea to make the tools more flexible. > > It sure beats vi :) > > > Well, I will need to be convinced..:-) > > Up to now, we are still looking at useradd/userdel as "low-level" > tools and thus the "high-level" functionality is better be integrated > into adduser/deluser. > > We also have, for instance, a request to make useradd add users in > LDAP backends and we could even end up in requests to be able to add > users in "winbind" backends one can have with the samba package (users > authenticated against a NT domain). > > I'm very reluctant to push such feature requests to upstream shadow > and ask it with all possible name services systems.
Well, we're not exactly speaking of adding a whole new mecanism, I think, but of allowing the tools to do exactly the same work on other files. For sake of helping nis users. It's a valuable goal which is easy to achieve. I vote +1 for it. If Mark and Miquel confirm that this would indeed help nis user (and thus confirm that this is probably the submitter request), I'll prepare a patch. Once the technical issue will be solved, the complexity of the solution may help in the political discussion about whether we want it ;) Tomasz, what's you opinion on this one? Bye, Mt.
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