Re: passwd.d

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On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Mark Rosenstand wrote:

> Hi!
>
> As you probably know, many distributions have all sorts of weird
> useradd/groupadd magic in their package install scripts. They tend to
> get pretty ugly when something needs to change, and I imagine that they
> aren't fun to maintain. Another problem is that various package managers
> consider configuration changes on a per-file basis.
>
> I was wondering if a {cron,inetd,profile}.d-style passwd.d directory
> could help solve this, together with a small utility to synchronize the
> entries with /etc/passwd for compatability purposes. I also realise that
> this is a lot of work, especially with my knowledge of the shadow
> codebase. So, before I open my editor, I'd like to hear people's
> thoughts on this :)

Waste of time ..
If you realy want spend time on prepare usable conceptions for finalize 
this in real programing better try look on current state of work on 
NSS2 (Name Services Switches v2):
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/sparks/architecture/arc-funcspec_commit.pdf

kloczek
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