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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.


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-Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org]
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