Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:35:17 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk>, Rick Flosi <rflosi@shrike.depaul.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kde KUser - expires accounts Message-ID: <200307021435.17319.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030702094259.GF17757@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <Pine.HPX.4.44.0307011136290.15713-100000@students.depaul.edu> <20030702094259.GF17757@iconoplex.co.uk>
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On Wednesday 02 July 2003 02:42, Paul Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:50:44AM -0500, Rick Flosi wrote:
> > I used KUser to add a user to my system and after saving the
> > changes I made KUser expired all user accounts except the newly
> > created one.
>
> <snip explanation of going into single-user and undoing the expiries>
>
> > Does anyone know if there is a patch for KUser to fix this problem.
> > I found some discussion about this but it was from Feb. 2003 and I
> > was unable to find a patch.
>
> I'm just curious what the "problem" is? If you tell KUser to expire
> all accounts, surely, that's what it should do... personally, I would
> advise that the maintainers of KUser take the option away. I can't
> think of a practical application where you would need to expire all
> users.
Anyone who runs a publicly accessable shell server can come up with
dozens of them without even thinking. You probably *don't* want it to
disable the root account, and possibly also exclude all accounts in the
'wheel' group.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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