Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 04:22:27 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: robin@is.co.za Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user management stuff Message-ID: <9056.821794947@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:07:23 %2B0200." <199601161207.OAA23785@admin.is.co.za>
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> 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. Actually, I'm rather hoping that someone will re-write adduser so we can throw the one we have away! I've had no end of problems with that bloody perl script! :-( Jordan
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