[Bug 456985] Re: account configuration not working

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 06:56 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> No, I would not.

~sigh~

> It's a configuration error to have a password record
> with an "x" without a corresponding shadow entry, and we shouldn't
> ignore such configuration errors by default.

It's not a configuration error when the information being used is cached
because the machine is away from the network where the configuration
information is normally available.

You are being way too rigid here and excluding perfectly valid use-cases
because they don't exactly fit the original design model.  i.e. rules
for the sake of rules rather than because they actually make sense.

You know this sort of thing drives me nuts.  Perfection is the enemy of
progress and success.  I admit to being a perfectionist and yet I still
know that perfection is not always necessary and in many cases actually
stifles what would otherwise be considered success.

Perfection is responsible for throwing away many otherwise successful
products because it's simply unreasonable to try to make it absolutely
perfect -- which in most cases doesn't have any real world impact
anyway.

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account configuration not working
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456985
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