Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 13:22:18 -0500 From: Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org> To: Craig Cowen <craig@allmaui.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su change? Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010403131900.00af5eb0@pop.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <3ACA12BD.A8706D97@allmaui.com> References: <005401c0bc63$7cb36650$0202a8c0@majorzoot> <001f01c0bc68$681a2b20$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20010403140935.F9618@pir.net>
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At 11:13 AM 4/3/2001 -0700, Craig Cowen wrote: >I worked at an isp and the office staff was responsible for terminating >accounts. Well, one particular staff member kept screwing up in vi and wiping >out the root user's entry. >That's when I made them use chsh <user> > >I believe that it will give error messages like visudo to common mistakes. Good grief. One should always use utilities like vipw or chsh when editing the password databases. They do sanity checking, locking, and other magically important tasks which a simple `vi` won't. Not to mention that on FreeBSD, vipw and chsh will also run pwd_mkdb automatically. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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