Re: adduser(8) in 5.0-R

2003-01-22 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Mike Makonnen wrote: I have cc'ed bmah, because I think it should be in the errata. Done. Thanks! Bruce. msg50715/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

adduser(8) in 5.0-R

2003-01-21 Thread Robin Breathe
Morning all, Just a little thing I've spotted in 5.0-R which could cause grief for new users. Post-perl adduser(8) is broken with what I would term sensible passwords. i.e. those which contain special shell characters (|/`/$/etc). The fix is simple: ---

Re: adduser(8) in 5.0-R

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Makonnen
Committed. Thanks! -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Fingerprint: D228 1A6F C64E 120A A1C9 A3AA DAE1 E2AF DBCC 68B9 msg50640/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: adduser(8) in 5.0-R

2003-01-21 Thread Robin Breathe
- From: Mike Makonnen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: adduser(8) in 5.0-R Committed. Thanks! -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Fingerprint: D228

Re: adduser(8) in 5.0-R

2003-01-21 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Robin Breathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030121 15:23]: wrote: Wonderful, thank you too :) Another totally unrelated thing I'm a little unsure on is the default group ownerships of the /dev/ttyv? Devices under devfs. Some are owned by group tty, others by wheel. Is this correct/intended? It

RE: adduser(8) in 5.0-R

2003-01-21 Thread Robin Breathe
When you are logged in as root, the virtual terminal that you are using has those permissions - root:tty When you login as robin, it will have robin:tty. The unused virtual terminals will remain root:wheel It's about who is assigned that device. Technically, I am not able to explain this

Re: adduser(8) in 5.0-R

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Barcroft
Mike Makonnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Committed. Thanks! Should this be an errata item? Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

RE: adduser(8) in 5.0-R

2003-01-21 Thread Robin Breathe
seems a shame to blemish errata with it :) Robin -Original Message- From: Mike Barcroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:55 PM To: Mike Makonnen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: adduser(8) in 5.0-R Mike Makonnen [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: adduser(8) in 5.0-R

2003-01-21 Thread Robin Breathe
Heh, in the example I chose md5 isn't even required (I was thinking of it in terms of somebody meaningfully choosing a 8 char passwd). Robin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: adduser(8) in 5.0-R

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Makonnen
I have cc'ed bmah, because I think it should be in the errata. On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:36:11 - Robin Breathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, it might be worth mentioning, since md5 is the default passwd hash, it's not infeasible that someone might choose `rm -rf /`, or similar, as their