Dennis Gilmore wrote: >On Monday 06 March 2006 23:59, David Lutterkort wrote: > > >>On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:48 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: >> >> >>>Mike McGrath wrote: >>> >>> >>>>The problem I have with the UserCreation page in the wiki is it >>>>provides no non fedora-usermgmt creation alternatives. And since >>>>fedora-usermgmt is not yet in wide adoption I'm very hesitant to use >>>>it. >>>> >>>> >>>Which in the scope of Fedora Extras is a small/non issue, IMO. AFAIK, >>>fedora-usermgmt acts (almost) exactly like the usual useradd when it's >>>not specially configured by end-users. >>> >>> >>It also makes the specfile immediately fedora-centric. The second I used >>foedora-usermgmt for the puppet package, I had a request to make it >>build for CentOS again. It's also not clear to me if replacing something >>as central as part of shadow-utils has other ramifications, e.g. for >>configuration mgmt tools. >> >>David >> >> >http://centos.karan.org/ has extras packages built for centos so there is no >reason why you cant use fedora-usermgmt and have it work :) > > > Except only 26 packages in FE use it. 0 packages in core use it AFAIK. We're re-inventing the wheel and I just don't get why. When systems admins have UID conflicts, they have to fix them. That's all there is too it. -Mike -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
