Comment 3 for bug 1323732

Hm. I don't think I like this patch =)

In Clearlinux.org we use nss-altfiles, not extrausers project. And I have extensively patched shadow to support altfiles. Ideally I would like that support to be reviewed and landed upstream. Specifically all system accounts & groups are defined in altfiles, yet one can do things like "add this system account to this system group" in which case relevant stanzas from system data files is copied and stored in files under /etc/.

Can we merge this support in shadow? At the moment it seems like clearlinux.org, ubuntu (snappy), fedora (atomic) are using altfiles/extrausers and all would want proper support in shadow of setups with split system-provided accounts & user/admin modified accounts.