Re: [Cpu-users] Features and Problems

[Thorsten K. <ku...@su...>]

On Tue, May 07, Blake Matheny wrote:

> I've got some free time coming my way, so I'm going to try and take
> care of some of the nagging features and issues in cpu that I have
> been meaning to. I would appreciate some feedback on what things you
> would like to see in cpu, and what problems you have had. You can
> get a rough feel for some of the upcoming features to look for in cpu
> by checking out this url:
> http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/19555/2002/3/0/8188895/
> The more feedback I get, the more useful I believe cpu can become for
> administrators. Thanks.

What I think: The SSL/TLS stuff is important and as far as I can see
not so hard to implement. Only: Don't forget to add an option that
cpu should abort or not if we cannot make a secure connection with TLS.

What I wish: 
Better compatiblity with the useradd options  from the shadow suite.
Especially I'm missing the -e and -G options and I have a problem
with the different meaning of the -f option.

A compile time switch (or in config file) which allows the admin
to use the default values from /etc/login.defs (as most Linux
distributions uses in the moment), so they don't need to maintain
them twice. Maybe I will find the time the next days to make a
patch, this should also be trivial.

  Thorsten

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