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Re: serious PWOG problem with quick fix

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Aug 22 11:28:50 2001

To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>, aurora@mit.edu, bugs@mit.edu,
        source-developers@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 22 Aug 2001 11:28:37 -0400
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<jhawk@MIT.EDU> (John Hawkinson) writes:

> I think, after all these years, it would be a good idea to stop the
> practice of having users edit the password file(s) by hand, and provide
> a helper utility to deal with these cases.

Why not simply recommend the use of /etc/athena/access instead?

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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