On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:52:22AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >Don't you just look forward to the final release of my little project
> >passwd-ng? (Google will find it for you, I'm sure...), which will bring
> >a lot of sanity to Unix user and group management. Those who have
> >ever tried the {ls,rm,ch,mk}{user,group}/chgrpmem commands available in
> >AIX have tasted it already; I'm reimplementing these commands, suitably
> >adapted to Linux. Maybe some day I'll actually get around to make a
> >first release...
>
>
> Hopefully you won't be reimplementing the bugs:
>
> Date-time format: use something both human readable and sortable.
> (mmddHHMMyy is neither, seconds since 1970 is at
> least the latter. "yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS" would be good.)
yyyy-mm-dd is the format I'm using (haven't bothered with hh:mm:ss yet.
Will implement later though.)
> Consistant interface
> (some of the commands use -a before attributes, other don't)
> (see date format above)
I've tried to be consistent, but there are some reasons to deviate.
> reserved username
> If ALL is used to indicate all users, how can I have a user
> named ALL?
Simple. You can't. You can have one named all though ;-) I think I'll
keep it this way.
> readable output
> lsuser has a glop of output that it is difficult to find
> anything in.
You can specify what attributes you want to show via --attr.
> backend
> /etc/passwd must stay.
It will.
> things being updated by login should be in a database.
Care to provide examples?
> The additional administrator set things should be in another
> editable file.
/etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow
> I'm not fond of the paragraphs of glop format of /etc/security/passwd.
I haven't recreated the /etc/security-mess. Most of it doesn't map too
well into Linux, at least not yet...
> wishlist:
> inactive-expire (expire after x days with no login or other password
> requiring activitiy.)
Ahhh, nice idea. Will consider implementing...
/David
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