Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:30:20 -0400 From: "gerald stoller" <gerald_stoller@hotmail.com> To: bright@wintelcom.net, adrian@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adduser bikeshed Message-ID: <F85n7qJBfzkvxhYLEUq0000a969@hotmail.com>
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>From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> >To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> >CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: adduser bikeshed >Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 05:29:31 -0700 > >* Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> [010420 05:22] wrote: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/~adrian/adduser.patch > > > > It adds an option which enables the password that is created. > > "enabling" means "don't put a * in front". Its aimed for accounts > > which will use non-password authentication (eg RSA/DSA). > > Its also aimed at sysadmins who want to create accounts but have > > them automatically disabled (think university admins who create > > shell accounts for users but want them to do training BEFORE > > enabling said account..) > > > > Now, the bikeshed: what should the option be? > > "Enable account at creation" isn't very descriptive and can be > > confusing. > >I requested this feature and I'm thinking that the > "Use passwords (y/n) [y]: " > >should be changed to: > "Use password based authentication and enable account? (y/n)" > if "n" > "Do you wish to disallow password passed authentication? (y/n)" This sounds like just knowing the account ID is enough to get you into the computer. Why not ask (more positively) "Do you wish to use a query/response system?" or some such thing? > if "n" > "Use an empty password? (y/n)" > if "y" > "Are you damn sure you want to do that? (n/n)" > >heh, thanks for doing this btw. > > >-- >-Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] >http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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