From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 2 07:32:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA26638 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 07:32:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rnocserv.urc.ac.ru (rnocserv.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA26270 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 07:29:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Received: from urc.ac.ru (y.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.37]) by rnocserv.urc.ac.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15309; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 20:25:57 +0500 (ES) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Message-ID: <36B71904.461CE8DB@urc.ac.ru> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 20:25:57 +0500 From: Konstantin Chuguev Organization: Southern Regional Center of FREEnet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josef Karthauser CC: Michael.Bielicki@Linkdesign.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Alex Povolotsky Subject: Re: YP-like mySQL thing References: <19990202142921.E84751@florence.pavilion.net> <19990202151558.F84751@florence.pavilion.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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, ). 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message