On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Nigel Kersten <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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 think that would be a terrible mistake: it means that, for example, > on Debian we would not invoke the local user management hook that > useradd, etc, invoke. That would have messed with at least my > deployment in the past. > > Avoiding platform tools also means avoiding any platform extension > points, which I don't think is a huge win. By "a ticket on this" I meant specifically the issue of not using libshadow to parse out the /etc/shadow file. Avoiding the platform tools for user management is a wider discussion. -- Nigel Kersten | http://puppetlabs.com | @nigelkersten Schedule Meetings at: http://tungle.me/nigelkersten -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
