> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:29:58PM -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: >> > > 3. Query the user's real world name etc (ie. not just gecos) >> > By this, you mean more than just the name in gecos? >> Ideally, yes. > > Why not just get the gecos name field right? There's reinventing the > wheel, > and then there's lifting the car up and putting it on a sled and pulling > it > with a team of carefully trained dancing ferrets. Been done. You've re-invented the dancing ferret sledomobile. Besides, what is backend-independent? Whatever was chosen would have to work with ldap, nis, winbind, etc. Although I suppose just targeting pam might work, but IANAexperienced system programmer. > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
