On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:38:34PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
On Wednesday 25 April 2007, I wrote:
The first draft about user and group handling (creation etc) is ready for discussion: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/UsersAndGroups
As noted in this week's FPC meeting minutes, the draft is probably going to be voted on next week. A more fleshed out and cleaned up version which also takes into account some findings in the FPC meeting as well as other feedback on -maintainers is now online. Comments still welcome.
Is it really a good idea to run /bin/id in scriptlets? Depending on nsswitch configuration, couldn't this block waiting for NIS/etc lookups?
(though maybe the same is true of useradd; I've always wondered whether it would be better to be using l{user,group}add instead)
joe