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On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 02:32, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Friday 06 February 2004 09:14, Stewart Honsberger wrote: |
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> > Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > > Basically muttrc is not of the same class as passwd, fstab and group. If |
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> > > you're up to it, just move the three to somewhere else and reboot. After |
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> > > that I think you can appreciate that one must not be enabled to |
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> > > overwrite them. |
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> > Some people run Linux because they don't like their operating system |
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> > protecting their toes from their own firearms. |
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> Maybe my wording was a bit too harsh. But I cannot see the point of offering |
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> the user the option of replacing his passwd/fstab/group with one that with |
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> 99% certainty is wrong |
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> Paul |
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More importantly; which has been brought to the attention of the devs |
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and ignored; is that useradd, userdel, usermod, groupadd, groupdel, |
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groupmod or similar should be used the modify /etc/password and |
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/etc/group. |
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