Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 05:29:31 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adduser bikeshed Message-ID: <20010420052931.P1790@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20010420052227.B66232@hub.freebsd.org>; from adrian@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:22:27AM -0700 References: <20010420052227.B66232@hub.freebsd.org>
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* Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> [010420 05:22] wrote: > > 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. I requested this feature and I'm thinking that the "Use passwords (y/n) [y]: " should be changed to: "Use password based authentication and enable account? (y/n)" if "n" "Do you wish to disallow password passed authentication? (y/n)" if "n" "Use an empty password? (y/n)" if "y" "Are you damn sure you want to do that? (n/n)" heh, thanks for doing this btw. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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