cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 passwd.5

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Wed Oct 5 13:50:09 PDT 2005


On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:05:39PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi Ceri,
> 
> > > I checked the src/crypto/openssh/configure.ac.  It might defines one of
> > > LOCKED_PASSWD_STRING, LOCKED_PASSWD_PREFIX or LOCKED_PASSWD_SUBSTR,
> > > depending on the OS it is being compiled on.  I understand that the
> > > FreeBSD project doesn't use the autoconf stuff and there doesn't need
> > > a modification to the upstream OpenSSH-portable, stricly speaking.
> > > 
> > > Therefore I dare to give them a patch that will define
> > > LOCKED_PASSWD_STRING to "*" when the compiling host is FreeBSD,
> > > it seems to make sense.
> > 
> > Did you actually read what I said in this thread?  '*' isn't correct; we
> > use '*LOCKED*'.
> 
> Yes, my apologies, I read the thread too quickly.  Anyway I have been
> corrected by Senthil Kumar when I posted the patch to configure.ac on
> OpenSSH devel mailing list.  According to Darren Tucker, this has
> been commited today.

Confirmed.  Thanks for taking this to them.  As for your note regarding
lack of cron(8) support for this, I have patches (that don't work) for
cron; working on it.

Ceri
-- 
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)
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