From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 24 14:26:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA04481 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA04472 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA13304; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:25:36 -0700 (PDT) To: Wolfram Schneider cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser mail In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:42:00 +0200." <199606241642.SAA01467@campa.panke.de> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 14:25:36 -0700 Message-ID: <13302.835651536@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk No arguments here! > Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > >Am I alone in thinking that adduser's current default behavior of mailing > >the user their password in plaintext is somehow wrong? > > I would rather remove the 'send mail to new user' feature completely. > This should be done with a mail client (pine, Emacs/VM). > > Wolfram