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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Locking master.passwd correctly Date: 27 Dec 1996 19:59:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5a19qo$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <59sro8$l1a@atlas.jcpenney.com> <59ul10$r1t@news1.iamerica.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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33213 AJ Musgrove <musgrove@xavier.varmm.com> wrote: > You are probably using advisory file locking on the master.passwd, and chfn > isn't checking for the lock. > > Try turning on the setgid bit of master.passwd (which activates mandatory > locking on non-execute files). That may help. It may not help as well. :-) FreeBSD doesn't support `mandatory' file locking. However, the password utilities are supposed to advisory lock the master.passwd file. -- 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. ;-)