From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 06:58:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA14585 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 06:58:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA14579 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 06:58:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA07503; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:56:19 -0500 Message-Id: <199601171456.JAA07503@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Authentication-Warning: spooky.rwwa.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: Wolfram Schneider cc: robin@is.co.za, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user management stuff In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:15:36 +0100." <199601162215.XAA01147@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:56:19 -0500 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I don't like the idea of a delete user script. There should be, at least, programmatic support for deleting passwd and group entries. There is nothing for that now. Also, there should be programmatic ways of changing the passwd (other than being forced to use expect/passwd or something.) [In my case I have a system a system where the passwd database and another database need to be kept in sync. While we are at it, I have noticed the following errors in 2.1 WRT this: 1) There is no way to delete entries from passwd or group without just manually doing it. 2) crypt(3) says that the ``setting'' string is 9 characters beginning with ''_'', but by trial and error, it seems that the passwords in the master.passwd file are *not* generated this way. 3) chpass -p doesn't seem to work at all. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 592 8935, Net: witr@rwwa.COM