On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Taketoshi Sano wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raul Miller) writes: > > > > I think you should just use useradd to edit the password file. > > > > You mean without ensuring that the password is useful? > > > > I've already elected to give the admin a choice (whether or not to add > > the account -- that'll be in the next release). The problem with password > > prompting is that it doesn't fit well into an automated or gui install. > > > > Under these circumstances do you still feel it's useful to add > > a locked account? > > How about to include following small script > (maybe "/sbin/sashpasswd" with permission 0700 or 0744): > > #! /bin/sh > PATH=/usr/bin > passwd root > passwd sashroot
Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to match root's password whenever it was changed? Or am I oversimplifying things? -- Ashley Clark