On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:17:17 -0600, Greg wrote: > I am in the process of installing the following on a test box for the > clamav rpm dependencies and was curios as if anyone here could provide > some feedback on them: > > from http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/ > fedora-usermgt, fedora-usermgt-setup, fedora-usermgmt-shadow-utils > > Obviously these are going to deal in user management and affect the > shadow file and password file (maybe the group file as well). > > So what kind of changes do these make? By default, none. But you can configure the user-management system to use a different and more secure UID/GID allocation strategy. Examine "rpm -qi fedora-usermgmt" and follow the link to: http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageUserCreation > Will these be part of FC2? I doubt that. Too late. And I think Red Hat are pretty much not caring about Fedora Extras yet either, but are only monitoring the community, which waits for Red Hat, however. --
