From: strombrg@uceng.UC.EDU (Dan Stromberg) Subject: tsx-11, new upload (was Re: bug fix for the new gcc 1.40) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 04:16:13 GMT
In article <1992Feb25.042024.10512@athena.mit.edu> tytso@athena.mit.edu writes:
>I've also taken the time to process all of the uploaded files that have
>hit ~ftp/incoming in the past few days. To make things easier on me
>(I've been fairly time-crunched at work lately), I'd appreciate it if:
(Good suggestions deleted)
Three of those things I uploaded, without attribution:
- sdbm, an ndbm clone
- m4, a preprocessor
- John Haugh's shadow password suite.
I used the first two, and a number of pieces of poe's work, in building
the third.
The third contains:
chage chfn chpasswd chsh dialup.h dpasswd faillog gpasswd groupadd
groupdel groupmod groups id libshadow.a login login.defs logoutd
mkpasswd newgrp newusers passwd pwconv pwd.h pwunconv shadow.h
su sulogin useradd userdel usermod
If anything, it's too much stuff. My 3M root partition is nearly
full. Shared libraries for this would be kind of nice.
On tsx-11, the shadow password stuff is split into two files:
shadow-src.tar.Z and shadow-bin.tar.Z. You *can* use the binaries
without grabbing the source, but there's a small kernel patch in
the src file, which makes it look nicer... It adds ECHONL support,
so when you hit enter after typing a password, the enter is echoed.
shadow-src contains a README file. shadow-bin contains a script
"quick.install", taken from a "make -n install", to get it
running on your system with minimal effort.
> - Ted
Thanks, Ted.
- Dan