From owner-cvs-usrbin Sun Nov 3 00:52:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-usrbin Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA07662 for cvs-usrbin-outgoing; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 00:52:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA07524; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 00:50:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA11073; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 09:50:45 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA24248; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 09:50:45 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id JAA29850; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 09:24:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611030824.JAA29850@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/passwd Makefile local_passwd.c To: jkh@freefall.freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 09:24:56 +0100 (MET) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611030312.TAA16708@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 2, 96 07:12:01 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)