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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: login.c.patch
Date: 10 Jun 93 19:18:34
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Jun10191834@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <1v0d95INN5po@hrd769.brooks.af.mil>
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In-reply-to: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil's message of 7 Jun 1993 16:51:19 -0500
In article <1v0d95INN5po@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes:
=>If any of you have tried to use passwd expiration, you have probably
=>seen this problem. The account expire date is used to notify the user
=>when their passwd is about to (or already has) expire. This has been a
=>mistake from the early days, and I suspect it is a mistake clear back to
=>the net-2 tape.
the version of 'login' which is on UUNET these days is a more recent
release than that on the net/2 tape.
it has this bug fixed, and apparently some others as well.
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass