On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:07:40PM -0700 I heard the voice of Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus: > > The problem with your proposed patch is that it breaks the > ability to allow authentication against the database while > it is undergoing modification, which may be a prolonged period.
Would it? For starters, this locks master.passwd, not spwd.db, so any well-behaved program that used getpw*() like a good little monkey wouldn't even notice it. In fact, with Paul's change and the rename() alteration, it'd be BETTER for programs that tried to parse master.passwd, because as it currently stands, there are times when it's incomplete (because of the line-by-line copy, which caused us both a few moments of illness when we noticed it). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
