Re: pkgsrc RC scripts

[Joachim König <him%online.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 07:56:52PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:

> That's not a desirable goal.
[...]
> if pkgsrc wants to add a new user, the user name goes in /etc/passwd
> (and /etc/master.passwd of course), not in /etc/pkgsrc-passwd or something
> (with corresponding additions to the rest of the system so it can deal 
> with
> two password files).   We could do that to "keep a logical separation"
> between users that are part of the base system, and others added by pkgsrc
> (and then create yet another password for file locally added users, 
> like me)
> but I don't see anyone suggesting that as the path to adopt (and a 
> good thing
> that they're not).
what about nis, ldap, dns then?  nsswitch.conf(5) solves the problem for 
these
"databases", so there surely is a need for separation for some admins.




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