AcctInfo Wishlist (1.18)

Following is a list of items that I'd like to add to AcctInfo or that
others have requested. I've listed them here in the order that they're
likely to be completed.

Write access to /etc/passwd.

    Once the core chunk of code for updating /etc/passwd is done,
    enabling individual pieces should be easy.

Write access to /etc/shadow.

    Same as above.

Read access to quotas.

    Reading quota information shouldn't be difficult. It's first
    implementation may not be "native," but it will eventually be (as
    long as the OS vendors let us know how it works).

Write access to quotas.

    It's the next logical step.

Intelligent caching of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.

    In cases when AcctInfo is used in a batch mode to process a
    high-volume of account, it begins to feel slow. There's a lot of
    overhead in the cache() method that could be done away with by
    have a shared cache in memory which contains /etc/passwd and
    /etc/shadow. Ideally it would be shared among several instances of
    AcctInfo.

Make the PARANOID and EXPERIMENTAL settings local.

    Right now, those two variables are set as part of the AcctInfo.pm
    file, and there's no easy way for the user to change them, aside
    from modifying that file.

    I'd thought of just adding a member function to take care of it,
    but that's really not what I want. I'd like to make it an argument
    to the constructor.


The End.

$Id: Wishlist,v 1.7 1998/07/06 02:39:31 jzawodn Exp $