Sudhakar Chandra saw fit to inform LI that:
>Are you *sure* that this is a Sun / BSD thing? Maybe it is just
>something that was hacked together in freenet / hobbiton. Is the new
I have seen this in other BSD freenets as well, and freenet.nether.net is
the only freenet I know of which runs on a sun box.
>account a one-time thing? Meaning will the account be deleted after a
>while? The reason I ask is if you allowed users to create accounts for
No. newuser is a login which fires up an account creation script, and the
account stays on.
>themselves, things are bound to go out of whack and soon you end up with
>thousands of dead accounts.
You don't login for (say) 30 days, your account is nuked.
>On Linux you can use a combination of sudo and adduser (or is it useradd?)
>to hack up something along these lines.
IIRC, the security hassle is a bit too much ... I'll ask around and post
something to the list.
Or wait - there was a thread about all this in (LIG|LIH) around when LI
split into several lists a few months back. Arun posted a pretty good
explanation for this IIRC.
>Thaths
Oh BTW, any reason why you trimmed your surname in the from: field of your
mail? 'Sudhakar Chandra' I mean :)
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