Details
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Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Normal
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Resolution: Fixed
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None
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None
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Night's Watch
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2
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NW - 2020-01-22, NW - 2020-02-05
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Needs Assessment
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Enhancement
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The 'forcelocal' parameter can now be used on AIX for managing local user and group resources. This option conflicts with the 'ia_load_module' parameter.
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Needs Assessment
Description
Currently, the forcelocal parameter forces the management of local accounts/groups when they are also being managed by some other NSS. However, this parameter is wrongly coupled with the libuser feature, which is a platform-specific application.
This parameter can also be used on AIX and Windows, but due to the way it was implemented it is impossible to do so.
PUP-9465 and PUP-10168 are tasked with separating the libuser functionality from the useradd/groupadd providers into a separate libuser provider.
When that work is complete, we can work on generalizing the forcelocal parameter:
- add a new feature called manages_local_users/groups
- remove the libuser feature
- make forcelocal require the new manages_local_users/groups feature instead
- update impacted providers accordingly