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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Removing Users from FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 27 May 1996 17:39:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4ocpbv$bko@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nvobf$dvu@news.starnet.net> <4nvuc8$622@atlas.uniserve.com> <slrn4qd93g.e7m.map@marikit.iphil.net> <slrn4qim1t.pol.map@marikit.iphil.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E map@marikit.iphil.net (Miguel A.L. Paraz) wrote: > How about this script -- let's call it 'deluser'. > Very crude, though - and no consistency checks! > open (H, ">/etc/master.passwd"); > print H @master_passwd; > close (H); This is a security problem. You need to set the process' umask to 077 before creating the new master.passwd. Better recreate /etc/passwd by running ``pwd_mkdp -p'' (along with the db files). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)