Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please don't flame people who report *major* SNAFU's in your > > program. > > Well... He didn't report it...
Perhaps not, but he was one of the people involved in finding it; I know because I (half-)watched them doing so on IRC. > > You entirely missed Jim's point. /etc/shadow is owned by another > > package, therefore you should not be mucking with it. > > If one should not go mucking with the file, how do one add/remove > users then? I hope you're joking, but I have this depressing feeling you're not. Please look at the passwd package and RTFM. > > There are provided interfaces to /etc/shadow, kindly use them (or > > show why you can not). > > Yes, this is such a interface. This is a administration program, one > I wrote to replace adduser, which seldom work for me, or my > users/administrators. No, it's not an interface. Something which has no concept of locking is *not* an interface to /etc/shadow, it's an abomination. *You do not own this file, you can not much with it directly without good reason* (and you have no good reason, you don't even seem to have figured out commands like `useradd', so please don't pretend you have a reason). -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
