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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:31:28 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>, billf@FreeBSD.ORG, irys@irc.pl, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: i386/35816: no one can change password, because "passwd DB is locked"
Message-ID:  <20020313123128.GA99103@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20020313035240.S29705@blossom.cjclark.org>
References:  <20020313025449.R29705@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020313112322.C0F1B3E31@bazooka.trit.org> <20020313035240.S29705@blossom.cjclark.org>

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:52:40AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
>   4) chpass re-reads and locks the master.passwd (note that user
>      interaction has finished).
> 
>   5) chpass checks that the changes are sane (that the user still
>      exists, that fields that the user cannot change are not reverted,
>      etc.).

At this stage it may be best to bail if any of that user's fields
have changed - that way you're least likely to get unexpected
interactions.

	David.

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