[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#61210: Is really adding users to LDAP, Kerberos, NIS the job of useradd?

[Christian Perrier]

The bug submitter here sugegsts:

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I think it would be very cool if the useradd, userdel, and related
commands (adduser would probably have to be modified, but then, maybe
not) simply used plug-ins for various name services (as glibc calls
them; a.k.a., password databases) that can be used instead of the
traditional Unix flat-file mechanism, such as LDAP, NIS(+), Kerberos, and
the like. (though I'm asking for LDAP, because it owns the others ;)
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I'm not really sure that interacting with other name services is
really the job of a low level utility such as useradd.

In my opinion, adding accounts in all these systems is the job of
their respective utilities (think about systems using winbind to
authenticate users in Windows domains...do we *really* want useradd to
be able to add Windows domain accounts=A0? How will it provide all the
extra information these systems may require)

In my opinion, such change is a real dream...and probably not likely.

Thoughts?

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