Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: xdm-shadow is already available. Yes, and I am using it. But the question is, does it support the pri=, umask= and ulimit= fields in /etc/passwd? And do cron and at also know about these fields? If

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-23 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: xdm-shadow is already available. Yes, and I am using it. But the question is, does it support the pri=, umask= and ulimit= fields in /etc/passwd? And do

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-23 Thread David Frey
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 02:41:27 +0200 Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On 21 Apr 1998, Guy Maor wrote: [at, cron etc and priorities] I am not really a programer, but I wonder how hard it would be to put support for these fields in all programs like login, xdm, cron, at and anything I am forgetting. Could

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 03:59:18AM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: BTW, about the issue of programs breaking on 50 out of the 100 different systems they normally run on: can't this be solved by some smart #ifdef's in the code? I'd think that if you write

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-22 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 21 Apr 1998, Guy Maor wrote: Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If shadow-login is the only program that supports these fields, they are useless. If a user had a value pri=5, he would only have to do something like echo 'command' | at now to get 'command' executed at normal

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-22 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: xdm-shadow is already available. Yes, and I am using it. But the question is, does it support the pri=, umask= and ulimit= fields in /etc/passwd? And do cron and at also know about these fields? If cron and at don't know about them and don't

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-22 Thread Raul Miller
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not really a programer, but I wonder how hard it would be to put support for these fields in all programs like login, xdm, cron, at and anything I am forgetting. Could this be done? The difficulty isn't so much making the change, once (though that

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-21 Thread Guy Maor
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If shadow-login is the only program that supports these fields, they are useless. If a user had a value pri=5, he would only have to do something like echo 'command' | at now to get 'command' executed at normal priority. Yes, it's not very

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, David Frey wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:27:39PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: The comment field is used by various system utilities, such as finger(1). Three additional values may be present in the comment field. They are pri= - set initial value of

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-19 Thread David Frey
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:27:39PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: The comment field is used by various system utilities, such as finger(1). Three additional values may be present in the comment field. They are pri= - set initial value of nice umask= - set initial value of umask ulimit=

/etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-17 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
The comment field is used by various system utilities, such as finger(1). Three additional values may be present in the comment field. They are pri= - set initial value of nice umask= - set initial value of umask ulimit= - set