Re: sash

[Ashley Clark <aclark@ghoti.org>]

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