[Adduser-devel] Re: Bug#134473: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#134473: Is someone able to understand what is requested in #134473?

[Christian Perrier]

(enlarging the discussion again..:-)). See http://bugs.debian.org/134473

> > I'm CCing debian NIS packager (hello Miquel) to see what he think abo=
ut it.
> > [For the context, shadow packaging just changed into a team effort, a=
nd
> >  we're doing massive bug triage]
>=20
> Well actually nowadays Mark Brown does most (the last few releases,
> all) of the work on NIS.
>=20
> But it's probably not a bad idea to make the tools more flexible.
> It sure beats vi :)


Well, I will need to be convinced..:-)

Up to now, we are still looking at useradd/userdel as "low-level"
tools and thus the "high-level" functionality is better be integrated
into adduser/deluser.

We also have, for instance, a request to make useradd add users in
LDAP backends and we could even end up in requests to be able to add
users in "winbind" backends one can have with the samba package (users
authenticated against a NT domain).

I'm very reluctant to push such feature requests to upstream shadow
and ask it with all possible name services systems.

I think that adding a kind of plugin mechanism to Debian specific
adduser utilities would be more logical, if that's feasible.

Marc and adduser maintainers, opinions, thoughts=A0?