On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 21:36 -0400, Mike Kelly wrote: > Hi, > > As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was > going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a > package (for example, the cron user), to all the passwd backends > listsed in /etc/nsswitch.conf. However, in consultation with some > folks, it seems that what may be more desirable is to just add > users/groups to the local files/compat backends instead, and not make > any changes to the remote databases. > > Does anyone have any strong notion of any cases where it would be > excessively bad for the package manager to try adding to, say, the > nss_nis backend in addition to the nss_files backend, or cases where > that would be a strongly desired behavior?
bad == many places use a ro backend for auth w/ mysql/ldap/etc Writing to the local files would be acceptable with me. I'm sure someone will come up with an objection, though. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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