From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Nov 21 13: 1:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from spammie.svbug.com (mg128-177.ricochet.net [204.179.128.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A923C37B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:01:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from spammie.svbug.com (localhost.mozie.org [127.0.0.1]) by spammie.svbug.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00440 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:01:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jessem@spammie.svbug.com) Message-Id: <200011212101.NAA00440@spammie.svbug.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:00:57 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com Reply-To: opentrax@email.com Subject: Does this sound good? (Fwd: Re: passwd file update functions) To: arch@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This went throught the mailing list for netbsd. Would such an idea be good for FreeBSD? ------ Forwarded message ------ From: Jaromír Dolecek Subject: Re: passwd file update functions Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:36:00 +0100 (CET) To: Matthias Scheler Cc: tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Matthias Scheler wrote: > the passwd file update functions in "libutil" don't support using a > directory other than "/etc" for the password database. I would like > to add a new function "pw_prefix(3)" which can be used to set the > prefix. This function could e.g. be used to enhance "vipw" and > "rpc.yppasswdd" to work with directories != "/etc". > > Opinions? Sounds good. Jaromir -- Jaromir Dolecek http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/ @@@@ Wanna a real operating system ? Go and get NetBSD, damn! @@@@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message