The bug submitter here sugegsts: ------------------------------ 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 ;) ------------------------------
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�? 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? --
