Password sync plugin, and questions about plugin criticality

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:08:29PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> Our goal is that in the normal case you need only drop a plugin into a
> directory in order to enable it.  You should not have to configure any
> more than that.  We will probably support a mechanism long-term for
> overriding order.

If you'd provide such a mechanism then you might as well do that from
the start.

Configuration by hard/symlink is probably a bad idea for some of us.

> We also support the concept of plugins retrieving plugin-specific
> configuration from krb5.conf.  Except when absolutely required we do
> not want to force plugin-specific configuration.

Agreed.