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From: Phillip Musumeci <phillip@pm.cse.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: docs/2978: "man 5 passwd" suggests use of a shell script for (INSECURE) messaging
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The following reply was made to PR docs/2978; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Phillip Musumeci <phillip@pm.cse.rmit.edu.au>
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: docs/2978: "man 5 passwd" suggests use of a shell script for (INSECURE) messaging
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:58:32 +1100 (EST)

 OK (I just had a look for the "-p" switch but couldn't see it).  
 
 I guess I was reacting to this suggestion in the man page from the point of
 view of a sunos user of years gone by, where we treated shell script
 replacements for an actual shell as something not much different to a
 normal shell (from an access point of view).
 
 Sorry to cause any worries.
 phillip