[325] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Some notes on installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yoav@MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 28 10:29:04 1994
From: yoav@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 10:28:18 -0500
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU, yoav@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
greg, I believe you didn't understand me...
> How are you going to handle multiple logins? How do you know if the
smae way that the current athena login handles this.. nothing has changed,
current login code already removes you from the passwd file, and all I do
is remove you from that, plus the other three (which you were added to previously)
> Note that a user could log in without having a local
this doesn't change with my scheme. Again, I'm modifying Athena's login code.
> Let me repeat this one more time: the NetBSD system assumes that
> /etc/master.passwd is the source form for passwords. The most obvious
so? we make sure that it stays like the source form.
> the passwd program edits /etc/master.passwd
no greg.. the passwd program edits all four. It just uses the master.passwd as the source
for the visual edits (namely vipw), since that contains all the info in a human readable form.
My guess is that the actual system uses the db databases for all the syscalls (such as getpwent etc..).
Whatever.. I'll try and get the /bin/login working, and then you tell me what seems to
be missing.. I REALLY don't like breaking the athena concept and making logins more complex
unless there is no alternative..
yoav
