On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com> wrote:<br>
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We can do that with SSSD, which we are planning to take over all users
(though it will leave /etc/passwd on the system for emergency repair and
backward compatibility).</div></blockquote><br><div>Ok, though one thing that's going to be important to me at least is the ability to mutate the user list "offline" - the use case here is something like an installer where you're operating on a different target root. So in addition to the DBus API, there would need to be a way to use a shared library API with a "const char *chroot" type argument (as e.g. ostree_sysroot_new() has now).</div><div><br></div><div>Ideally that ends up being dumb filesystem manipulation, maybe invalidating some database-type caches that are then regenerated on boot or so. And I should be able to control whether or not fdatasync() occurs on written files. A bit more on the fdatasync() topic here: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=139578267630878&w=2">http://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=139578267630878&w=2</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>