On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Nick Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:37 AM, David Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Aha! This and the resulting discussion pointed me in the right direction
> what's wrong with the machines I was looking at: they're missing
> libshadow-ruby.
>
>
> I'm starting to think we shouldn't bother consuming libshadow-ruby.
>
> We only use it to pull out the hash, min_age and max_age from the user
> records, and that's relatively easy to do manually...
>
> In fact, we already do it manually in the user_role_add provider for
> Solaris...

Doh! I know there was a wider discussion around not relying upon tools
like useradd at all on Linux for user management, and I think there
may have been a ticket on this already.

I'll hunt that down and we'll see if we can remove this annoying dependency.


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