Regarding the wrapper -- yes, the wrapper is a decent idea. Then
everyone would have to be educated (ie: forced?) to use that command and
not an alternative such as npasswd, etc. Of course, the only way to
do this would probably be to disable the old passwd (and wonder
what that breaks). It's not all that simple, in the end.
> >Ok, so it was a poor choice of words. I thought it was clever.
> Sorry, it went straight over my head. After all, "root" does have another
> common meaning in Unix-ese.
What does it mean to Australians? Wouldn't it be nice to change your
fv<k account to sysadm or something else? Just try it with Solaris.
> >My safeguard is another copy of the original root password in the
> >/etc/password (or /etc/shadow) file. I really didn't see it
> >as a major foopah.
> I don't think it's really that awful, although I do prefer the idea of
> training the users to deal with the system properly rather than expecting
> it to read their minds.
Right. I prefer the idea of having decent documentation on things so
that I don't have to read the author's mind.
Do I have to install tcpserver as root? I did and I didn't even
check beforehand. I *trust* djb. It doesn't mean that a config
wasn't missed that would do something that I'd really prefer not
be done to my system, though.
Scott
