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Date:      Sun, 3 Nov 1996 09:24:56 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jkh@freefall.freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/usr.bin/passwd Makefile local_passwd.c
Message-ID:  <199611030824.JAA29850@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199611030312.TAA16708@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 2, 96 07:12:01 pm"

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

>   Modified:    usr.bin/passwd  Makefile local_passwd.c
>   Log:

>   What this change does, simply speaking, is syslog it every time
>   someone changes their local password.

You'll be surprised, but i've seen another request for such a feature
recently in (German) Usenet.

>   If your users change their passwords so often as to fill your logfile,
>   then you may also have another administrative problem to deal with.

I hope you're logging with something low enough like LOG_INFO, so it's
easily separable.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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