Re: new great debian feature (was: modular design for adduser)
hi,
you are talking about two different thingies. one thing is
account management a là adduser another one is accounting, policies and
the like, already well done by pam. so lets just stick to user
creation/modification/deletion with some added goodies like DB, LDAP
and NIS.
ciao,
federico
> ah... we have to maximize the powers of groups and do not forget
> e3fs (if i'm not wrong, something about users and priviledges changes).
>
> we have to think at synchronization with nfs uids/gids, look right at
> nis/nis+.
>
> what about smartcards? uh.. what about other authentication methods?
>
> modules, modules, modules? c, c++, perl, python?
>
> interact with databases is another must.
>
> do you want to add a new cvs user? ok, download a plug-in and play
> with it.
>
> don't you like *that* user, tell your user manager to audit him.
> so a plug-in for user accounting is needed.
>
> lots lots of these ideas can be requested, if we have a good framework
> we or others can add them succesfully in a second phase.
>
> what about *that*?
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Federico Di Gregorio
MIXAD LIVE System Programmer fog@mixadlive.com
Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact fog@debian.org
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