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. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
