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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:08:38 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: Does this sound good? (Fwd: Re: passwd file update functions)
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opentrax@email.com wrote:
> 
> This went throught the mailing list for netbsd.
> Would such an idea be good for FreeBSD?
> 
> ------ Forwarded message ------
>     From: Jaromír Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
>  Subject: Re: passwd file update functions
>     Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:36:00 +0100 (CET)
>       To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
>       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".

that would be good for Whistle, though by now we have (well, they have)
workarounds for the fact that / is read-only.. mostly symlinks.

> >
> > Opinions?
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> Jaromir
> --
> Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
> @@@@  Wanna a real operating system ? Go and get NetBSD, damn!  @@@@
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