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Subject: Re: user management stuff 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:07:23 +0200."
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 04:22:27 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I was horrified to see that /usr/sbin/adduser does no locking of the password
> file!  I recommend that instead of attempting to add the entry directly that
> the program simply invoke chpass -a <list> which will see to it that locking
> is done etc.  Much safer.

Actually, I'm rather hoping that someone will re-write adduser so
we can throw the one we have away!  I've had no end of problems with
that bloody perl script! :-(

					Jordan