From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 9 11:24:01 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA22608 for current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 11:24:01 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA22601 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 11:23:57 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA04636; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:23:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:23:49 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9508091823.AA04636@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: A boy and his worm gear Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: proposed change to chpass(1) In-Reply-To: <199508091803.OAA26176@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <199508091803.OAA26176@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: > As near as I can tell from the code, this is intended behavior, > though it's not documented in the man page. I think it's fairly clear from the letter chosen: -a The super-user is allowed to directly supply a user database en- try, in the format specified by passwd(5), as an argument. This argument must be a colon (``:'') separated list of all the user database fields, although they may be empty. that this feature was intended to allow users to be added mechanically from a shell script or some other program while still obeying the locking protocol. At a minimum, your change should still allow for this case. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant