From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 14:35:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0672237B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:35:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.omnis.com (smtp.omnis.com [216.239.128.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D0243FAF for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from salty.rapid.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632371B317; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:35:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr.com To: Paul Robinson , Rick Flosi Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 14:35:17 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030702094259.GF17757@iconoplex.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030702094259.GF17757@iconoplex.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307021435.17319.wes@softweyr.com> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kde KUser - expires accounts X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 21:35:24 -0000 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. > > > > > 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