Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 16 June 2006 10:00, Mike Kelly wrote: > "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 16 June 2006 05:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > nss is glibc-only, so such a solution would be inadequate > > > > Actually this is one of the strange and rare cases that's not only

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread paul kölle
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Most things *should* not to *anything* if the account exists in > mysql/ldap/nis/etc as the account is already present. Right, i.e. use NSS for the query and *don't* use hacks like grepping /etc/passwd. > It's just the > case of it *not* existing that causes the real pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:42 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Mike Kelly wrote: [Thu Jun 15 2006, 08:36:25PM CDT] > > As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was > > going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a > > package (for example, the cron user), to al

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread Mike Kelly
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:16:52 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 16 June 2006 05:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > nss is glibc-only, so such a solution would be inadequate > Actually this is one of the strange and rare cases that's not only > glibc's. FreeBSD can

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread Grant Goodyear
Mike Kelly wrote: [Thu Jun 15 2006, 08:36:25PM CDT] > As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was > going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a > package (for example, the cron user), to all the passwd backends > listsed in /etc/nsswitch.conf. However, i

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 21:36 -0400, Mike Kelly wrote: > Hi, > > As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was > going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a > package (for example, the cron user), to all the passwd backends > listsed in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 16 June 2006 05:03, Mike Frysinger wrote: > nss is glibc-only, so such a solution would be inadequate Actually this is one of the strange and rare cases that's not only glibc's. FreeBSD can use nss too :) -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Al

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:03:36PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > However, in consultation with some > > folks, it seems that what may be more desirable is to just add > > users/groups to the local files/compat backends instead, and not make > > any changes to the remote databases. > you mean up

Re: [gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 June 2006 21:36, Mike Kelly wrote: > As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was > going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a > package (for example, the cron user), to all the passwd backends > listsed in /etc/nsswitch.conf. nss is glib

[gentoo-dev] nss_* and system users

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Kelly
Hi, As part of my original plans for my GLEP27 implementation, I was going to have my scripts automatically add the users requested by a package (for example, the cron user), to all the passwd backends listsed in /etc/nsswitch.conf. However, in consultation with some folks, it seems that what may