On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:07:17PM +0000, Michael Ablassmeier wrote: > >> what about `/etc/issue' to get this kind of information? > > > > Given that the sysadmin can and does edit it as they wish, that is > > pretty useless. > > yes, but this might happen to `/etc/lsb-release' too.
The admin might also modify /etc/passwd. Does this make /etc/passwd a bad place to specify user accounts? -- Petri Latvala
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