Hallo Denys! > I don't see why any of "missing" commands are vital, but if you do > need some of them (e.g. "distro foo fails to do bar if command baz is > missing"), please describe. Don't know if any distro install needs one of them (may be chgpasswd, like chpasswd).
As I do use several unix groups to grant access to some data or programs, it's necessary to change my current group from time to time. Thats it, why I need newgrp. Additionally from time to time standard scripts and commands need to be started with a different group, the point where sg comes in. And sometimes group passwords need to be changed. It's possible to do this using cryptpw and an editor (or sed) but gpasswd is ways more easy. In the past I used expiry on a server machine to force users to change there passwords (after setting some OTP in case of a forgotten password). And sometimes users need to change there login shell (chsh) without knocking on an administrators door. Think of small functionally dedicated servers on some cheap (respective old) hardware without local terminals and limited resources, where users are granted access to some of the hardware connected to that machine, or data acquired by that machine. Only the administrator hast root access, but users get full shell access via ssh to control the connected hardware etc. > Sure, why not? Just to ask, if it's welcome or if there are reasons not to include those commands into busybox. > Whoever doesn't need then could always disable then in .config... > That was my thought. Tschau Harald _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
