[TriLUG] Libuser

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 14:26, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Tanner Lovelace <lovelace at wayfarer.org> writes:
> > Jeremy Katz just mentioned to me that apparently the libuser rpm in
> > redhat may already contain everything we need. I see that it has an
> > ldap backend, so I'll take a look at that later this evening.  You
> > might look at it yourself and see if it'll do what you want too.
> > (If so, perhaps you could package it for debian. :-)
> 
> Hum.
> 
> There seems to be virtually no information on it outside of the
> package itself, and it looks to not even be in >= 7.1. 

It's in the 7.3 installs on the trilug machines.  And it wasn't
something we installed special, it was already there.

> While this is
> not an intrinsic problem, it suggests that it might be sufficently
> coupled to RedHat itself as to make maintaining a package bsed off it
> a bit of a pain---it is my experience that when packages have no life
> outside of a distribution, they tend to get...idiosyncratic.
> 
> (And no, before anyone jumps down my throat, that's not a jibe at
> RedHat---I'm sure the people porting apt out of Debian, or who try to
> get dpkg running on Solaris, etc. all have just as much pain for the
> exact same reason; development of such things is generally very
> inward-focussed.)
> 
> Still I might look into it.  Thanks for the pointer, and let me know
> if it does what you need.  I'll still probably do the scripts, if only
> as a learning exercise.

Well, since the license is LGPL, you might consider forking it 
off and making it more generic.  Of course, that comes with its
own set of problems. :-)

Tanner
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