Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] qga: guest-set-user-password - added ability to create new user

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 05:22:39PM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> On 01/14/2016 05:18 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> wrote:
> >>These patches add optional 'create' flag to guest-set-user-password command.
> >>When it is specified, a new user will be created if it does not
> >>exist yet.
> >>
> >What's the motivation to re-use set-password instead of a new command?
> 
> because we will have to change the password later on after addition
> of such user. Also this looks better for a case "create if not exists" and
> force new password.

I don't think that's very compelling honestly. In addition when creating
user accounts there's a whole bunch more parameters you potentially want
to set besides just the username - see how many options exist with the
'useradd' command. Also with some users you might not want to set any
password. So if we want to create users via QGA, I think that having a
separate command makes more sense.

Regards,
Daniel
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