From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 12:55:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA07714 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:55:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07698 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:55:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA01418 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:54:45 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA14768 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:54:44 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id UAA04565 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:55:35 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601171955.UAA04565@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: user management stuff To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:55:35 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601171703.LAA02471@mpp.minn.net> from "Mike Pritchard" at Jan 17, 96 11:03:19 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Mike Pritchard wrote: > > > 3) chpass -p doesn't seem to work at all. > > That seems to work just fine for me in -current. I've recently un-broke this. It turned out that the YP initialization happened two dozens lines of code too late, so it clobbered the command-line derived settings. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)