Re: New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:44:29PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 17:18 +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > We /do/ plan on the syncing anyway, because some admins are
> > still used to vipw their passwd databases and there are legacy scripts
> > around, but still --  could we, when the SSSD interface is available,
> > call out from systemd-sysusers to the SSSD, with some fallback for
> > cases where SSSD is not running?
> 
> Jakub,
> I think we can use inotify on /etc/passwd and friends and reread if
> someone modifies the file.

Yeah, but the "callback" from systemd-sysusers could tell you all the
info right away.

But as I said earlier, we're going to need to re-read and sync anyway
for the vipw case, so it's probably a moot point..

> The important thing is that people don't try to invent new storage
> schemes and additional nsswitch modules and files for the system users.
> 
> Simo.

Right.
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