Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:23:49 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: A boy and his worm gear <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: proposed change to chpass(1) Message-ID: <9508091823.AA04636@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508091803.OAA26176@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <199508091803.OAA26176@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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<<On Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:03:44 -0400 (EDT), A boy and his worm gear <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> 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
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