Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 02:59:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Things linux has (suggestion/question). Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102200241530.5584-100000@prime.gushi.org>
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I was working with a linux system the other day and I noticed a couple things that I was looking to see if it was possible to port to freeBSD. 1. Linux has a locate utility called slocate, which (A) rebuilds its database MUCH faster and (B) allows you to search with your privileges (for example, if you type locate as root, you can search the whole drive, whereas another user would not be able to see in things like user homedirs, etc). 2. I was on a cobalt (I know, shoot me later, this is a good idea), and I noticed that the passwd utility did many more checks (did a dictionary check, checked for not enough different characters, etc) than the BSD one does. Is there any way to add this type of functionality? -Dan -- "A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." -Josef Stalin, As quoted on the cover to Savatage's "Dead Winter Dead" --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Web: http://prime.gushi.org finger danm@prime.gushi.org for pgp public key and tel# --------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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