Re: New!!!: Base-passwd 2.0

[Kenneth MacDonald <kenny@ed.ac.uk>]

Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
> And the only other known program to change the passwords is adduser, right ?
> So enabling passwd and al locking should be straightforward...
> About reading, if one reads a corrupted entry while the file is changing,
> this shouldn't cause too much hassle (bad login)...

And chfn(1) and chsh(1), if not more.

vipw(8) writes "/etc/ptmptmp" as a lock file already.

Kenny.


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