-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > Apparently I did not see it. Here is the essential question: > > /sbin/passwd requires the authority to write the password database, > which the user does not have.
Wrong. In my proposal she has the authority because there is no real ``password database''. There is just a file (say ~/.passwd) that contains the hash of the users password. - -- - -ness- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEVQ44vD/ijq9JWhsRArS5AJ99mnIWuyxy5MfqPzdd8RZFiyC+JgCfVPo9 Z2tH9u2fb8J/Tb95TyGPmxU= =c/75 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
