On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 02:32, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Friday 06 February 2004 09:14, Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> > Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > > Basically muttrc is not of the same class as passwd, fstab and group. If
> > > you're up to it, just move the three to somewhere else and reboot. After
> > > that I think you can appreciate that one must not be enabled to
> > > overwrite them.
> >
> > Some people run Linux because they don't like their operating system
> > protecting their toes from their own firearms.
> 
> Maybe my wording was a bit too harsh. But I cannot see the point of offering 
> the user the option of replacing his passwd/fstab/group with one that with 
> 99% certainty is wrong
> 
> Paul

More importantly; which has been brought to the attention of the devs
and ignored; is that useradd, userdel, usermod, groupadd, groupdel,
groupmod or similar should be used the modify /etc/password and
/etc/group.


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