Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?
On 21 Apr 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
> Remco Blaakmeer <remco@Cal011205.student.utwente.nl> writes:
>
> > If shadow-login is the only program that supports these fields, they are
> > useless. If a user had a value "pri=5", he would only have to do something
> > like
> > echo 'command' | at now
> > to get 'command' executed at normal priority.
>
> Yes, it's not very effective. It's meant to be used with restricted
> shells like rbash I guess.
I am not really a programer, but I wonder how hard it would be to put
support for these fields in all programs like login, xdm, cron, at and
anything I am forgetting. Could this be done?
RemcoA
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