Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 13:06:33 +0100 From: Lee Smallbone <lee@kechara.net> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: useradd/adduser Message-ID: <200105031320.OAA27288@mailgate.kechara.net>
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As usual, your responses have blown me away, both in terms of knowledge and speed. Thank you very much indeed to everyone who replied, and also to those who pointed out the -h 0 pipe option, I either missed it or misunderstood when I read the man page. This kind of community truly does make FreeBSD stand out from the crowd. -- Lee Smallbone Kechara Internet lee@kechara.net www.kechara.net Tel: (01243) 869 969 Fax: (01243) 866 685 03/05/2001 00:37:19, Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> wrote: >On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 21:40 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: >> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:21:57PM +0200, Ashley Penney wrote: >> > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:05:43PM +0300, Peter Pentchev said: >> > >> > > And if you're really, really interested, I could give you a >> > > little patch I made some time ago, to add a -H encrypted >> > > pass option to pw(8), which should do exactly what you need >> > > :) >> > >> > What's wrong with chpass -p "crypthere" user ? >> >> OK, several people pointed that out already :) I didn't know >> chpass could do that, ok? :) > >Not quite in all respects. There's a short discussion in "man 8 >pw" for how the -h option and feeding it from an fd is motivated. >By using pw(8)'s -p option you end up specifying the crypted form >on the command line, again. Whereas producing into an fd could >be done any way you could think of ... > >To cut it short: I would be happy to see your (Peter's) -H >option incorporated into pw(8). I assume it does what -h does, >too, but bypasses the crypt(3) call. This should make the patch >short and rather suitable for quick and smooth verification. > > >virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 >Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net >-- > If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above > ask your parents or an adult to help you. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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