From owner-freebsd-hackers  Fri Apr 20  5:22:29 2001
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From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: adduser bikeshed
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http://www.freebsd.org/~adrian/adduser.patch

It adds an option which enables the password that is created.
"enabling" means "don't put a * in front". Its aimed for accounts
which will use non-password authentication (eg RSA/DSA).
Its also aimed at sysadmins who want to create accounts but have
them automatically disabled (think university admins who create
shell accounts for users but want them to do training BEFORE
enabling said account..)

Now, the bikeshed: what should the option be? 
"Enable account at creation" isn't very descriptive and can be
confusing.




Adrian


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