From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 21 9:29:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B97A37B401; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:29:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop017.verizon.net (pop017pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7911C43ED8; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:29:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mtm@identd.net) Received: from localhost ([138.88.50.143]) by pop017.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.09 201-253-122-126-109-20020611) with ESMTP id <20030121172941.LGM10203.pop017.verizon.net@localhost>; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:29:41 -0600 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:29:40 -0500 From: Mike Makonnen To: Cc: mike@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, bmah@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser(8) in 5.0-R In-Reply-To: <002e01c2c15a$71d0ec50$026ca8c0@ishadow> References: <20030121085432.A96257@espresso.q9media.com> <002e01c2c15a$71d0ec50$026ca8c0@ishadow> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.TS81A9p6k6jwWe" X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop017.verizon.net from [138.88.50.143] at Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:29:41 -0600 Message-Id: <20030121172941.LGM10203.pop017.verizon.net@localhost> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=.TS81A9p6k6jwWe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have cc'ed bmah, because I think it should be in the errata. On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:36:11 -0000 "Robin Breathe" wrote: > Hmmm, it might be worth mentioning, since md5 is the default passwd hash, > it's not infeasible that someone might choose "`rm -rf /`", or similar, as > their passwd... Which would have somewhat unpleasant results since adduser > runs as root. Well, you would have to be root to run it in the first place, but I deserve the pointy hat none the less. Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm@identd.net | Fingerprint: D228 1A6F C64E 120A A1C9 A3AA DAE1 E2AF DBCC 68B9 --=.TS81A9p6k6jwWe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+LYOE2uHir9vMaLkRAgIUAJsHWXB6KJhgI2/O5rQQfCQaeWKoLQCdFnDc RtsM5it0hCKwYHcychPqXZc= =NqmO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.TS81A9p6k6jwWe-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message