= Proposed Self Contained Change: Authconfig Cleanup = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AuthconfigCleanup Change owner(s): * Tomáš Mráz <tmraz AT redhat DOT com> Removal of obsolete and unmaintainable code from Authconfig such as the support for configuring Hesiod and the authconfig GTK2 based GUI and TUI. == Detailed Description == There is plentiful of Authconfig code that is not really usable in the modern environment such as the support for WINS or Hesiod. Also the TUI and GUI of Authconfig is using unmaintained libraries such as GTK+2 and Glade. There are no resources to further develop these and port them to current GUI toolkits. The TUI was declared as deprecated a very long time ago. The current modern environments support autoconfiguration of the remote user identity and authentication via Realmd and SSSD and do not need any manual configuration through GUI. There is also an effort underway to develop a new tool for setup of PAM and NSSWITCH with better use of SSSD. But we understand that some of the command line functionality of Authconfig might still be useful in some environments and also to support the Anaconda kickstart %auth command. To keep the Authconfig code maintainable in future (in a kind of legacy mode) we need to cut out the parts that are not maintainable anymore or just complicate the code without any real user benefit. == Scope == * Proposal owners: Cleanup the Authconfig code, release a new upstream version and import it to Fedora. * Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
