Re: [rock-sm] 2005021712413810643 fake new

On Thursday 17 February 2005 13:02, Mathieu Doidy wrote:
> Here are mine after a quick overview of the patch :
> * the createuser command will ask for 2 things : if the new user is allowed
> to create databases and if it is allowed to create users. these questions
> will be asked out of stone, giving a bad user experience. i suggest using
> the parameters to createuser so that the created user is neither allowed to
> create user or databases ( --no-create-db --no-add-user) since it is the
> most frequent case. another solution would be ask within stone if the user
> should be able to create db or users.
good point. i'll implement the latter.

> * i am not sure that it is necessary to check for the existence of the user
> in /etc/passwd : 1/ createuser seems to be able to create the unix account
> if it does not exist 2/ users account can be elsewhere (getent passwd would
> be better that /etc/passwd) 
we don't have a stone module for creating users/groups, etc (yet). i 
personally wouldn't want to have creatuser create a unix account for me. 
though i absolutely agree with the getent solution.

> * i am not sure if we should put jokes in the stone modules. i would vote 
> against
:P okay, okay...

> * other common functions that could be 
> implemented : dump a db, import sql commands from a file
aye.

i'll re-build this target now, check out how the module behaves in general 
install-time, and then will probably come up with a new version.

greetz,
fake

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