Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
> In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980422024859.3271C-100000@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl> you wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote:
>
> >> xdm-shadow is already available.
>
> > Yes, and I am using it. But the question is, does it support the "pri=",
> > "umask=" and "ulimit=" fields in /etc/passwd? And do cron and at also
> > know about these fields? If cron and at don't know about them and don't
> > support them they're practically useless, like I said before.
>
> Use the allow/deny files for cron and at.
But that won't be a real solution, of course. Suppose I want to impose
different priorities, different ulimits and different umasks to different
users while all of them are still able to run cron/at jobs. Now I don't
really want to do this since I am the only one who really uses my computer
(apart from some friends that log in occasionally), but IMHO it should be
possible if it can be done.
Should I file wishlist bugs against the packages that IMHO should, but
don't support these fields?
BTW, about the issue of programs breaking on 50 out of the 100 different
systems they normally run on: can't this be solved by some smart #ifdef's
in the code? I'd think that if you write a patch that adds a good feature
while not breaking other things, most upstream authors will accept it.
Remco
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