Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 20:25:57 +0500 From: Konstantin Chuguev <joy@urc.ac.ru> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: Michael.Bielicki@Linkdesign.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru> Subject: Re: YP-like mySQL thing Message-ID: <36B71904.461CE8DB@urc.ac.ru> References: <19990202142921.E84751@florence.pavilion.net> <XFMail.990202163647.Michael.Bielicki@Linkdesign.com> <19990202151558.F84751@florence.pavilion.net>
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Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 04:36:47PM +0200, Michael.Bielicki@Linkdesign.com wrote:
> > Why don't you use a password for root ???
>
> Too much like lateral thinking ;) [doh!]
>
Not exactly :-)
Of course, root should have its password in /etc/master.passwd. Other users
shouldn't necessarily. For example, I need to maintain a database of users on an
ISP site. I have to manage with lots of config files of various Internet services
(POP/IMAP account, WWW account, dial-up, UUCP, UNIX shell, user's domain in DNS,
<name it yourself>). With a single database, it is easy to reflect automatically
information from the database tables to UNIX config files. Very easy user
addition/deletion/change etc.
--
Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Southern
http://www.urc.ac.ru/~joy/ Ural Regional Center of FREEnet,
mailto:joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia.
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