2014-04-11 19:19 GMT+02:00 Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@0pointer.de>:
On Fri, 11.04.14 19:05, Miloslav Trmač (mitr@volny.cz) wrote:

> There is broad agreement that future access to the user database database
> (both reading and writing) will be through sssd[1], and that the data model
> of /etc/{passwd,shadow} is too restrictive--we already want/need to store
> more data about users than those files allow us to.  (E.g. language for
> physical persons, better namespaces and more accurate password expiration
> for all accounts.)

Uhmm, is there "broad agreement"?

Well, it covers sssd, realmd, accountsservice, shadow-utils, libuser; that's most major projects actually managing the data.
    Mirek