F26 Self Contained Change: Authconfig Cleanup
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Authconfig Cleanup =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AuthconfigCleanup
Change owner(s):
* Tomáš Mráz <tmraz AT redhat DOT com>
Removal of obsolete and unmaintainable code from Authconfig such as
the support for configuring Hesiod and the authconfig GTK2 based GUI
and TUI.
== Detailed Description ==
There is plentiful of Authconfig code that is not really usable in the
modern environment such as the support for WINS or Hesiod. Also the
TUI and GUI of Authconfig is using unmaintained libraries such as
GTK+2 and Glade. There are no resources to further develop these and
port them to current GUI toolkits. The TUI was declared as deprecated
a very long time ago. The current modern environments support
autoconfiguration of the remote user identity and authentication via
Realmd and SSSD and do not need any manual configuration through GUI.
There is also an effort underway to develop a new tool for setup of
PAM and NSSWITCH with better use of SSSD. But we understand that some
of the command line functionality of Authconfig might still be useful
in some environments and also to support the Anaconda kickstart %auth
command. To keep the Authconfig code maintainable in future (in a kind
of legacy mode) we need to cut out the parts that are not maintainable
anymore or just complicate the code without any real user benefit.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
Cleanup the Authconfig code, release a new upstream version and import
it to Fedora.
* Other developers:
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Release engineering:
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* List of deliverables:
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Policies and guidelines:
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Trademark approval:
N/A (not needed for this Change)
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic