On Fri, 11.04.14 19:05, Miloslav Trmač (mitr@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > There is broad agreement that future access to the user database database > (both reading and writing) will be through sssd[1], and that the data model > of /etc/{passwd,shadow} is too restrictive--we already want/need to store > more data about users than those files allow us to. (E.g. language for > physical persons, better namespaces and more accurate password expiration > for all accounts.) Uhmm, is there "broad agreement"? I beg to differ... I really don't see sssd inside of OS containers. Sorry. I also don't see sssd covering cases where /var is not around and where we can "disconnected" updates, the way Colin suggests. I also didn't see sssd in control of system users at all, but merely of normal users. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct