random package of the day: authconfig?

Sandro "red" Mathys red at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jul 1 21:18:38 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> 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
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