[TriLUG] Libuser

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 13:26, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:

> I'll see if I can't get something by the end of the week.  I kind of
> need these for other uses, so this is as good an excuse as any.
> 
> Has anyone ever actually seen a /etc/default/useradd file in the wild?
> Anyone know the format?  Ideally I'd be able to pull the same defaults
> information as regular useradd, but nothing seems to document the
> format the defaults are stored in...and I'm not sufficiently motivated
> to go grovelling through source right at the moment...

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. :-)

Tanner
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