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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:07:23 +0200 (GMT)
From:      Robin Lunn <robin@is.co.za>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   user management stuff
Message-ID:  <199601161207.OAA23785@admin.is.co.za>

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Hi there,

I was horrified to see that /usr/sbin/adduser does no locking of the password
file!  I recommend that instead of attempting to add the entry directly that
the program simply invoke chpass -a <list> which will see to it that locking
is done etc.  Much safer.

Also, I've made a userdel script in perl.  It was written on company time and
so my company has the copyright.  The company is however happy to allow this
to be freely released.  Should I put this on a news group or would someone
like to have a look and perhaps put it into future FreeBSD releases?
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