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From: Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:37:47 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] user management mitigation
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> with the previously proposed/accepted GLEP 27 stalled, i'm looking into
> mitigating the current suckiness of enew{user,group}/egetent. the first step
> is simple: let's split these funcs out of eutils.eclass and into a dedicated
> eclass. this makes it trivial for people externally to override the
> functionality and hook into whatever craziness they want.
Wishlist item for the new eclass: a function that allows adding an
existing user (that had previously been created by enewuser) to a
particular group without dropping any other groups that the user is
already in. Would be very useful for gdm-3.2.
-Alexandre