Bug#134473: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#134473: Is someone able to understand what is requested in #134473?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

On Mon, 16 May 2005 23:35:40, Martin Quinson wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:29:50PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > I must confess that I have absolutely no idea of what the bug
> > submitter is requesting in http://bugs.debian.org/134473
> >=20
> > Has anyone a rough idea?
>=20
> A new option to the low level tools allowing to specify on which files to
> work on.=20
>=20
> Rational: on nis server, you don't want to allow the user of your company=
 to
> log onto your nis server, you want them to be added in the DB managed by =
the
> nis server. You don't want to modify /etc/passwd but /var/yp/ypfiles/etc/=
passwd.
>=20
> At least, that's what I understand from this mail, I've no personal opini=
on,
> beside the relative simplicity of the corresponding patch.
>=20
> I'm CCing debian NIS packager (hello Miquel) to see what he think about i=
t.
> [For the context, shadow packaging just changed into a team effort, and
>  we're doing massive bug triage]

Well actually nowadays Mark Brown does most (the last few releases,
all) of the work on NIS.

But it's probably not a bad idea to make the tools more flexible.
It sure beats vi :)

Mike.