[1667] in NetBSD-Development
Re: several problems with NetBSD 1.3/Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Wed Apr 29 17:13:23 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: peeto de la noche <gamache@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:19:27 EDT."
<199804291919.PAA18715@small-gods.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:13:07 EDT
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
> I'm going to look into providing a standard interface for changing the
> root password soon.
One solution would be to put a "passwd" program somewhere early in the
default path (for both root and users) that selects between kpasswd
and /usr/bin/passwd (based on uid, existence of local passwd in the
passwd database, and command-line options), and then if you change a
local password, automatically does the correct platform-specific
propagations (which would require setuidness for non-root local
accounts).
-- Dan
