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).
>
> 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.
This won't help you if you really don't like perl, but I have a
partial rewrite of adduser started and available at
http://people.debian.org/~zed/ -- right now it supports only LDAP, but
was written to make it easy to extend for other backends, because I
intended from the start to eventually merge in the regular adduser
functionality. It is in perl, but I've had people tell me that my
code is pleasantly readable. I'd been holding off making any
particular announcements on it until I'd had a chance to finish the
files backend (as a straight LDAP tool, it is being used in production
environments already, and I've gotten my first bug report from someone
using it in a non-Debian environment), but if you want to take adduser
in a direction away from perl, I may package it as-is as ldapusertools
or some such and turn my attention away from other backends. Please
let me know if any of this is likely to be useful to the adduser
people, or I should strike off on my own.
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Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org> a.k.a. Zed Pobre <zed@resonant.org>
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