From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Mar 13 18:45:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA08955 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA08899; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:44:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:44:35 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199703140244.SAA08899@freefall.freebsd.org> To: phillip@pm.cse.rmit.edu.au, mpp, freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: docs/2978 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Synopsis: "man 5 passwd" suggests use of a shell script for (INSECURE) messaging State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: mpp State-Changed-When: Thu Mar 13 18:41:58 PST 1997 State-Changed-Why: Fixed in rev 1.15 of passwd.5. I added some text regarding security issues when using shell scripts as the login shell.