From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 24 15:23:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA17775 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA17683 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:23:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA06627 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:23:20 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA01537 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:23:20 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA14115 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 23:56:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606242156.XAA14115@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: adduser mail To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 23:56:33 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <11828.835624782@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 24, 96 06:59:42 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Am I alone in thinking that adduser's current default behavior of mailing > the user their password in plaintext is somehow wrong? Ah, Jordan becoming security-concerned right now. :-)) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)