From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 8 09:32:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA21393 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 09:32:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA21377 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 09:32:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by labs.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA12161; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 04:32:23 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19970209043220.18011@usn.blaze.net.au> Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 04:32:20 +1100 From: David Nugent To: Keith Mitchell Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: User Classes in passwd References: <199702081415.JAA01180@weenix.guru.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61 In-Reply-To: <199702081415.JAA01180@weenix.guru.org>; from Keith Mitchell on Feb 02, 1997 at 09:15:34AM Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Feb 02, 1997 at 09:15:34AM, Keith Mitchell wrote: > I don't know if this was an oversight or not, but it looks > like user classes are implemented everywhere else so I thought > I would mention it. No, not "everywhere else" - yet. It isn't complete, and I'm implementing one step at a time quite deliberately so as not to create 'urgent' work for myself in multiple places at once should something break. It looks at this stage that we'll have to take a longer harder look at the authentication interface, for example, since "BSDI compatibility" is no longer possible - they've changed twice now between the first implementation in BSDI 2.1 and the (newly or shortly to be released?) 3.0, and look like changing again for 3.1. > passwd currently doesn't look in the class database to reset a user's > password expiration time when they change their password. In fact, > in local_password.c there is a comment saying that user classes will > change the default behavior of just setting the expire time to 0. Yep. I'll finally modify the passwd(5) manpage when I get to doing that. :-) It's around 3rd on the todo list, right after ftpd, so it'll be soon. Most of the remaining items are relatively trivial or relate to ports. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/