From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 31 21:15:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A35214C59 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 21:15:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA86930; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:15:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:15:17 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: TrouBle Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: REWARD...! Perl Programmer master.passwd problem Message-ID: <19991031231517.A86862@dan.emsphone.com> References: <381CD49F.7243D959@hackfurby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <381CD49F.7243D959@hackfurby.com>; from trouble@hackfurby.com on Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 06:45:35PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 31), TrouBle said: > Okay real simple.... ive had enough, i have a cash reward of a decent > sum to the first perl programmer who can re-write a script, to work > with the BSd style master.passwd file and write it cortrectly, this > is a web based cgi written in perl, orginially for linux shadow > passwds. i can give you access to the box, the script and the first > person who can provide a working solution gets the dough... oh... > yeah the dough, well its a few hundred dollars offered by my > employer. let me know who wants a crack at it ! Why are you manually modifying master.passwd in the first place? Does the 'pw' command not do what you want? User programs really shouldn't mess with the passwd file at all. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message