On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 03:27:58PM -0400, Dale Miracle wrote:
> jon wrote:
>
> > Dear fellows,
> >
> > #1. OpenBSD gots a port for checkpassword, its in
> > /usr/ports/mail/checkpassword..
> >
> > #2, are you sure its /bin/checkpassword and not /usr/local/bin/checkpassword?
> >
> > #3, OpenBSD 2.7-beta is out, try it, its great...
> >
> > #4, is your checkpassword executable and owned by root.wheel?
> > so it can check /etc/master.passwd...
Ownership does not matter. Running as root (BUT DON'T SUID IT!) does.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
