From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Mar 13 14: 0:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492AA37B417 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2DM03n33980; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:00:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203132200.g2DM03n33980@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: i386/35816: no one can change password, because "passwd DB is locked" Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR i386/35816; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Dima Dorfman Cc: "Crist J. Clark" , bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/35816: no one can change password, because "passwd DB is locked" Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:54:42 +0200 On 2002-03-13 11:23, Dima Dorfman wrote: > What happens if the data for that user changes between the time the > editor is started (with the old info filled in) and the time the user > is done editing? Assuming all the changes are valid, it would still > be technically okay to apply the new changes, but it might come as a > surprise to one or both of the parties involved. > > The above is intended as food for thought, not a flat-out rejection of > your idea; it isn't clear whether this should be allowed to happen, or > what we should do if it does. Nice food for thought too. Imagine of the following scenario, on a machine where two humans have root access: - User A runs 'chpass foo'. - Before user A finishes, user B runs 'chpass foo' too. - User A deletes account of user C. - User B adds account of user D. - User A commits changes. - User B commits changes. Is the account of C still erased? Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message