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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:15:17 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        TrouBle <trouble@hackfurby.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: REWARD...! Perl Programmer master.passwd problem
Message-ID:  <19991031231517.A86862@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <381CD49F.7243D959@hackfurby.com>; from trouble@hackfurby.com on Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 06:45:35PM -0500
References:  <381CD49F.7243D959@hackfurby.com>

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In the last episode (Oct 31), TrouBle said:
> Okay real simple.... ive had enough, i have a cash reward of a decent
> sum to the first perl programmer who can re-write a script, to work
> with the BSd style master.passwd file and write it cortrectly, this
> is a web based cgi written in perl, orginially for linux shadow
> passwds. i can give you access to the box, the script and the first
> person who can provide a working solution gets the dough... oh...
> yeah the dough, well its a few hundred dollars offered by my
> employer. let me know who wants a crack at it !

Why are you manually modifying master.passwd in the first place?  Does
the 'pw' command not do what you want?  User programs really shouldn't
mess with the passwd file at all.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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