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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


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