Re: sash
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 19990920190014.A3598@usatoday.com>
> raul@usatoday.com (Raul Miller) writes:
>
> > > I think you should just use useradd to edit the password file.
> >
> > You mean without ensuring that the password is useful?
> >
> > I've already elected to give the admin a choice (whether or not to add
> > the account -- that'll be in the next release). The problem with password
> > prompting is that it doesn't fit well into an automated or gui install.
> >
> > Under these circumstances do you still feel it's useful to add
> > a locked account?
>
> How about to include following small script
> (maybe "/sbin/sashpasswd" with permission 0700 or 0744):
>
> #! /bin/sh
> PATH=/usr/bin
> passwd root
> passwd sashroot
Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to
match root's password whenever it was changed? Or am I
oversimplifying things?
--
Ashley Clark
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