The "strings" program chokes if you try using "-n".
>How-To-Repeat:
Try "strings -n SOMENUMBER SOMEFILE".
>Fix:
Here's a "diff -u" patch that corrects the problem.
Submitted by: Lon Willett <lon%softt.uucp@math.utah.edu> via NetBSD
the symlinks for yppasswd & friends (we still can't use hard links
because passwd is installed immutable). This would have been simpler
if the LN_FLAGS variable hadn't chosen to wait until now before leaping
out of the /usr/share/mk directory and biting me in the ass. (And thus,
I was enlightened.)
newline must be part of the pattern space i.e. `echo a|sed -e P' must print
a
a
and not
aa
This is consistent with gnu sed, SunOS, Ultrix (and probably others!)
of hard links: since passwd is installed immutable, an attempt to make
a hard link to it during a 'make install' would fail. I didn't notice
this conflict because my /usr directory is an NFS filesystem mounted from a
SunOS server, so the special file mode flags had no effecti when I tested
everything on my machine. Live and learn.
This is the first round of changes to incorporate YP server functionality
into FreeBSD. This particular change allows passwd to change either the
local or NIS password, as well as the NIS GECOS and shell information.
Essentially, I've taken passwd(1) and yppasswd from the yppasswd-0.5
distribution (which is part of the NYS project -- a project to provide
a GNU GPL'ed suite of NIS tools) and rammed them into each other
at high speed. I've tried my best to make this co-exist with the
Kerberos stuff, but since I don't run Kerberos I don't have an easy
way to verify that it all works. If you choose any Kerberos flags
then the YP checks should be bypassed, but that may not be enough.
I'll modify it some more if it turns out I broke something. For now,
support for localand NIS passwords is pretty solid:
- If you simply type 'passwd,' the program checks to see if you exist
in the local pwd.db database. If not, you get bounced to YP.
- If you try to force local functionality with the -l flag and you
don't exist locally, you get an error.
The -y flag can be used to force YP functionality. -f and -s let you
change your full name and shell (respectively). -f *and* -s let you
change all of your 'account information.'
ypchfn, ypchsh, yppasswd and ypchpass are all links to passwd.
It will read a file on stdin and write it as decimal integers on stdout,
this is useful for embedding files in c-sources.
There are a few places where this is needed, and this is a better way than
the current practice of hand-editing the sources.
The command:
date | file2c 'const char date[] = {' ',0};'
will produce:
const char date[] = {
83,97,116,32,74,97,110,32,50,56,32,49,54,58,52,55,58,51,51,32,80,83,84,
32,49,57,57,53,10
,0};
The manual page is 2 lines longer than the source :-)
problems in the process:
1. Quoting should work properly now. In particular, Chet's reported bash
make problem has gone away.
2. A lot of memory that just wasn't being free'd after use is now freed.
This should cause make to take up a LOT less memory when dealing with
archive targets.
3. Give proper credit to Adam de Boor in a number of files.
Obtained from: NetBSD (and Adam de Boor)
