On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:07:16PM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
 
> For the passwd command, we have the following in the current spec:
> passwd [-l] [user]
 
> The specification for "passwd" is as specified in the BSD.Options
 
> -l update password only in local password file
 
> The parameter -l is used by the passwd command from the shadow suite
> and most other commercial unix as paramter for locking an account.
 
> Is it really usefull to define something different here ?

No, we agreed to use the shadow-suite as the Linux de facto Standard.

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