To be a new DFly commiter

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Fri Mar 16 19:10:48 PDT 2007


On Fri, March 16, 2007 7:05 pm, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

> Short for everybody too lazy to read:
> master.passwd is being split into single per-user files.  these  are
located in per-user dirs with mode $user:auth 710 and the files
$user:auth 640.  this way only root+user can change the files and 
therefore the password.  only root+user+group auth can read/check  the
password.  don't know about chsh(1) etc.

It doesn't seem like a bad idea.

In fact, I propose a new rule of thumb:  For any proposed feature where:

1: Matt doesn't object, and
2: No existing functionality is lost

it should go in.  Looking at the LICENSE file, it is indeedy under a BSD
license.  Grzegorz, can you submit a unified diff?










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