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Date:      Sun, 30 Jan 2000 20:58:55 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   bin/16480: locked accounts and adduser
Message-ID:  <200001301958.UAA07459@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         16480
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       locked accounts and adduser
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 30 12:10:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Wolfram Schneider
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:14:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Ben Rosengart <ben@penelope.skunk.org>
To: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: locked accounts and adduser

I thought it would be nice if one could create locked accounts with
adduser.  So I asked my nice Perl-hacking coworker Evan Leon to come up
with a patch.

Enter password []: 
Use an empty password or lock the password? lock no [yes]: lock

...

# grep user /etc/master.passwd 
user:*:1001:1001::0:0:Joe User:/home/user:/bin/sh

The patch is attached.  Anyone like it?  Any chance it could be
committed?  I find it useful in two situations:

1) Sometimes I want to install someone's public key instead of giving
   them a password.  That way, I don't need a secure channel over which
   to communicate the password.
2) Other times, I'm going to be pasting a hashed password directly into
   the master.passwd file, and this is a convenient way of locking the
   account until I do that.

Another idea I have is to allow adduser to accept a hashed password
instead of a plaintext one.  Perhaps if this goes over well, Evan and I
will work on that next.

--
 Ben Rosengart

UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
StarMedia Network, Inc.


--- /usr/sbin/adduser	Thu Jan 13 12:20:38 2000
+++ adduser	Tue Jan 18 16:57:05 2000
@@ -649,13 +649,17 @@
 	    last if $password eq $newpass;
 	    print "They didn't match, please try again\n";
 	}
-	elsif (&confirm_yn("Use an empty password?", "yes")) {
-	    last;
-	}
+        else {
+           $lockpass = &confirm_list("Use an empty password or lock the password?", 0, "yes", "no", "lock");
+           if ($lockpass ne "no") {
+            last;
+           }
+        }
+    }  
+    if ($lockpass == "lock") {
+      $password = "*"; 
     }
-
-    return $password;
-}
+}   
 
 
 sub new_users {
@@ -703,7 +707,12 @@
 	    $new_users_ok = 1;
 
 	    $cryptpwd = "";
-	    $cryptpwd = crypt($password, &salt) if $password ne "";
+            if ($passwd == "*") {
+              $cryptpwd = "*";
+            } 
+            else {
+              $cryptpwd = crypt($password, &salt) if $password ne "";
+            }
 	    # obscure perl bug
 	    $new_entry = "$name\:" . "$cryptpwd" .
 		"\:$u_id\:$g_id\:$class\:0:0:$fullname:$userhome:$sh";
@@ -1392,3 +1401,5 @@
 &new_users;	     # add new users
 
 #end
+
+



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