On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:02:38AM +0200, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > The number of bugs on the adduser package has constantly increased for > the last few months, though none of them is release critical. Since I > was busy with other stuff (mostly OpenLDAP and related stuff) I didn't > keep up with all the feature requests and non-critical bugs. This is > also partly due to the fact that I don't like the way adduser is > currently written (and also perl) a lot, and was planning to do a > complete overhaul (http://www.hbg-bremen.de/~roland/code/adduser.xhtml). > i could be interested
> Matthew Palmer has done some nice work in abstracting the passwd storage > backend, and adding methods for LDAP storage. The latter, though, still > needs some more work to be useful in different directory structures. > i have developed a system in python which abstracts from the backend too. moreover it is easily expandable with python plugins. it is also easy to develop new applications/utilities using it as a python module. it is pretty stable, i already use it in production system. http://www.nongnu.org/prua/ > I am thus seeking for one or two co-maintainers, and appreciate it a lot > if Matthew would chose to be one of them. The package is managed in a > Subversion repository on Alioth. The main package is in trunk, Matthew's > LDAP extended version in brances/adduser-ldap (which should eventually > be merged into trunk); all in the svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/adduser > repository. It'd be particularly useful, if you have NIS experience (and > maybe even a running setup), but not required. There is an adduser-devel > also on Alioth. > -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50
