On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:23:35AM -0800, Gary Winiger wrote:
> Secondly, Craig has hired someone to work on SMC. Once he gets
> up to speed, one of the tasks I've got planned for him is
> a general key=value extension so SMC will not continue to block
> work that needs to be done. (This should pick up Nico's piece
> as well ;-)
IMO we should reconsider waiting for SMC. The fact is that there are
ways[*] to administer arbitrary user_attr keys in the backends that we
support, even if many of us strongly dislike some of those methods of
administration (specifically, $EDITOR for files/nis), and SMC is roundly
disliked.
Now that we have these wide-open mailing lists perhaps we can openly ask
our customers just how much they care for OpenSolaris to have complete,
_generic_ name service administration tools when/before we add any name
service features.
[*] $EDITOR for files/nis, nistbladm(1M) for NIS+ and ldapadd/modify/
delete(1) for LDAP.
Nico
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