account at creation, create accounts with a "*" password (so you can
use alternate authentication schemes without fearing a "default" password
biting you later), and blank passwords.
Yes, adduser could create a blank password account, but this makes it
slightly more difficult to shoot yourself in the foot.
The /etc/adduser.conf entries are:
# use password-based authentication for new users
# defaultusepassword = "yes" | "no"
defaultusepassword = "yes"
# enable account password at creation
# (the password will be prepended with a star if the account isn't enabled)
# defaultenableaccount = "yes" | "no"
defaultenableaccount = "yes"
# allow blank passwords
# defaultemptypassword = "yes" | "no"
defaultemptypassword = "no"
Requested by: alfred
Reviewed by: alfred
group file. Because of the way the group sorting works while printing
out the new file it's not possible at this time to restore comments
in other locations, but at least they won't just disappear altogether.
one user who differs only by case. The other perl tools assume (or enforce)
the all lowercase requirement, therefore making the search through
master.passwd case insensitive seemed a reasonable optimization, IMO.
I understand, although I do not sympathize with, the argument that someone
might want to do this on purpose, and might subsequently want to use the
wrong tool for the job. So, this fix should hopefully satisfy both camps.
Address this by using getpwnam(), thus killing several birds with
the same stone. My fix is slightly more aggressive than the
originators. :)
PR: misc/22278
an *interactive* command for newbies. The pw(8) does now a much better
job for adding users from command line. Also, the -batch option is
not well tested, buggy and unsupported.
from /var/mail, added a routine to delete the removed user's files
from /tmp, /var/tmp, & /var/tmp/vi.recover, and added code to kill any
running processes owned by the removed user). I've also added a flag
for non-interactive execution, cleaned up the man page, and adjusted
my address.
Submitted by: ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu (Guy Helmer)
