On Thu, 2 May 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> Well, the stab didn't go because nobody was interested 8-)
Sorry --- I was interested, but I didn't see your original message. This
problem has been biting me (and a client) in the ass for quite some time.
> I actually had in mind some farther-reaching changes, which would (after
> 'fixing' pw) include potentially rewriting adduser(8) and friends to
> backend into pw to; sort of consolidate the user-management stuff a bit.
While I was looking through the sources yesterday, I was wondering why so
many pieces were reimplemented time and again. So I'd say that sounds
like a worthwhile cause.
> What do people think of using the external lock file (well, I can't
> actually think of any OTHER way to do it, so...)? I'm thinking /var/run,
> but on the flipside just putting it in /etc might be cleaner. Comments?
Hmm. hier(7) describes /var/run thusly:
run/ system information files describing various info
about system since it was booted
I guess it could be easily argued that "the password file is currently
locked" describes information about the system since it was booted. :)
Geoff
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