Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:54:22 -0800 From: Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org> To: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: locked accounts and adduser Message-ID: <20000302145422.C7995@gelatinous.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001181706100.64214-200000@penelope.skunk.org>; from ben@skunk.org on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 05:14:26PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001181706100.64214-200000@penelope.skunk.org>
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 05:14:26PM -0500, Ben Rosengart wrote: > I thought it would be nice if one could create locked accounts with > adduser. So I asked my nice Perl-hacking coworker Evan Leon to come up > with a patch. > > Enter password []: > Use an empty password or lock the password? lock no [yes]: lock > > ... > > # grep user /etc/master.passwd > user:*:1001:1001::0:0:Joe User:/home/user:/bin/sh > > The patch is attached. Anyone like it? Any chance it could be i like this. i hope it gets committed; i would definitely use it. did any committers pick this up? > Another idea I have is to allow adduser to accept a hashed password > instead of a plaintext one. Perhaps if this goes over well, Evan and I > will work on that next. i'd find this useful as well. aaron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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