From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Aug 2 16:43:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-101.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CC915177 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 16:42:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01323; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 23:25:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA02627; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 23:26:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199908022226.XAA02627@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/12828: passwd(1) doesn't recognize comments In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Aug 1999 11:58:33 +0200." <78054.933587913@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 23:26:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On 02 Aug 1999 11:30:19 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Instead of duplicating code all over the place, you might want to > > rewrite passwd(1) to use pw(8) as backend. > > That's a good idea. Are you opposed to my fixing the code as it stands > and leaving DTRT for later? Talking of which, adduser(8) screws up badly updating a group file with comments..... I've been meaning to look at it :-] > Ciao, > Sheldon. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message