random package of the day: authconfig?

[Matthew Miller]

Is this useful in the cloud image? It pulls in some stuff like slang and
newt. Is it useful to have in the base, or is it something people might add
if needed?

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Matthew Miller  ☁☁☁  Fedora Cloud Architect  ☁☁☁  <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;

[Shawn Starr]

On Monday, July 01, 2013 12:09:08 PM Matthew Miller wrote:
>  Is this useful in the cloud image? It pulls in some stuff like slang
> and
>  newt. Is it useful to have in the base, or is it something people might add
>  if needed? 
If you need to adjust SSO (Single Sign On) capabilities wouldn't you want this 
on so you can use it for scripting, say using Samba/Active Directory for login 
management?

Thanks,
Shawn

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 12:22:53PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
>  On Monday, July 01, 2013 12:09:08 PM Matthew Miller wrote:
>  > Is this useful in the cloud image? It pulls in some stuff like slang and
>  > newt. Is it useful to have in the base, or is it something people might add
>  > if needed?
>  If you need to adjust SSO (Single Sign On) capabilities wouldn't you want
>  this on so you can use it for scripting, say using Samba/Active Directory
>  for login management? 
Yeah, but you'll have to add a bunch of other packages for that, too, right?
Does it help for authconfig to be there if samba isn't?


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Matthew Miller           mattdm(a)mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>

[Sandro "red" Mathys]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org&gt; wrote:

>  On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 12:22:53PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
>  > On Monday, July 01, 2013 12:09:08 PM Matthew Miller wrote:
>  > > Is this useful in the cloud image? It pulls in some stuff like slang
>  and
>  > > newt. Is it useful to have in the base, or is it something people
>  might add
>  > > if needed?
>  > If you need to adjust SSO (Single Sign On) capabilities wouldn't you want
>  > this on so you can use it for scripting, say using Samba/Active Directory
>  > for login management?
>
>  Yeah, but you'll have to add a bunch of other packages for that, too,
>  right?
>  Does it help for authconfig to be there if samba isn't?
>
>  Figure it depends on what our cloud image is trying to achieve. Does it 
try to
leverage any of the cloud use cases where SSO is usual / necessary?
Personally, I very much doubt it.

And as Adam said, authconfig usually doesn't do anything useful unless you
add a few other packages, too.

-- Sandro

[Bill Nottingham]

Matthew Miller (mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org) said: 
>  Is this useful in the cloud image? It pulls in some stuff like slang
> and
>  newt. Is it useful to have in the base, or is it something people might add
>  if needed? 
Note that anaconda will put it there anyway, as it's used by kickstart for
any auth commands. So you would need to work around that.

Having it know the <auth method>:<package> mapping that is required can be
useful rather than requiring every admin to know it, but I don't know if
that's enough to keep it in the image.

Bill