Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 18:34:46 -0400 (EDT) From: A boy and his worm gear <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (A boy and his worm gear) Subject: Re: proposed change to chpass(1) Message-ID: <199508092234.SAA26473@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <9508091823.AA04636@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Aug 9, 95 02:23:49 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the world, Garrett Wollman had to walk
into mine and say:
> <<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:
[snip]
Okay: apparently I read the man page, but I didn't really _read_ the
man page. I suppose I asked for that. :)
How about this then:
*** pw_copy.c.orig Wed Aug 9 13:46:59 1995
--- pw_copy.c Wed Aug 9 18:19:10 1995
***************
*** 96,101 ****
--- 96,108 ----
goto err;
}
if (!done)
+ #ifndef TOO_LENIENT_FOR_OUR_OWN_GOOD
+ if (getuid()) {
+ warnx("%s: not found in %s -- permission denied",
+ pw->pw_name, _PATH_MASTERPASSWD);
+ pw_error(NULL, 0, 1);
+ } else
+ #endif
(void)fprintf(to, "%s:%s:%d:%d:%s:%ld:%ld:%s:%s:%s\n",
pw->pw_name, pw->pw_passwd, pw->pw_uid, pw->pw_gid,
pw->pw_class, pw->pw_change, pw->pw_expire, pw->pw_gecos,
This should still let the superuser use the -a flag while preventing
things from getting confused when NIS is enabled.
Am I getting warmer?
-Bill
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