From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 10 07:37:11 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA05811 for current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 07:37:11 -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 HAA05803 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 07:37:08 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA06038; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 10:36:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 10:36:57 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9508101436.AA06038@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: A boy and his worm gear Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proposed change to chpass(1) In-Reply-To: <199508092234.SAA26473@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <9508091823.AA04636@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199508092234.SAA26473@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: > 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: [deleted] > This should still let the superuser use the -a flag while preventing > things from getting confused when NIS is enabled. > Am I getting warmer? Well, what I would do is simply set a flag in main() saying ``we are adding an entry to the database'', and then obey it later on. -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