From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 1 17:46:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.ca (epsilon.lucida.ca [216.254.114.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 100EC37B41D for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:45:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 96123 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Feb 2002 01:45:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Feb 2002 01:45:30 -0000 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 19:45:30 -0600 (CST) From: Matt Heckaman To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task In-Reply-To: <3C5B42FA.858F36A8@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020201194422.G96043-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: ... : There's not even a "virc" equivalent to "vipw", that can do a : consistency check on the file to make sure it's "sourceable" by a shell : script, before permitting the edits to replace the valid contents, and : keep a backup of the previous file for you. Out of this entire thread, something I like! This would be a great idea. * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@LUCIDA.CA http://www.lucida.ca/gpg * * GPG fingerprint - 53CA 8320 C8F6 32ED 9DDF 036E 3171 C093 4AD3 1364 * The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest. -- G'Kar, "Survivors" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message