On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 07:58:39PM -0700, Cody Maloney wrote:
> I would like to implement support for non-local shell changing in chsh
> at the very least, and possibly support for non-local user attributes
> in general for the other attribute modification tools in login-utils.
> For my purposes I need LDAP support, but it would probably be better
> to make it able to use an arbitrary storage backend. Ideally an API
> would already exist for this, but while one for setting authentication
> tokens has evolved (pam_chauthtok) and one for reading user attributes
> (Name Service Switch NSS), but none for setting them as far as I can
> tell. As such, I think the best route would be just to make a new API
> for this.
Already implemented:
https://fedorahosted.org/libuser/
it also provides utils like lchfn or lchsh. Not sure, but maybe it
would be possible to optionally link the default chfn and chsh utils
with the library too.
[CC: to Miroslav, author of the library]
Karel
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