The char that the random letters and numbers are being pulled from is
ended with a '\0'. Using sizeof() includes this '\0' in the 'pool' of
possible characters. This patch decrements by one the size so we don't
accidently end the new password prematurly.
and terminate it. This patch ensures passwords will be the correct length of 8,
which is what is implied in the source (but not reflected in the man page).
PR: bin/7817
Reviewed by: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
Submitted by: Hiroshi Nishikawa <nis@pluto.dti.ne.jp>
consider it a exit failure if it doesn't work. This means that root
processes can safely get the lock, but normal processes can still use
the 'pw' utility to get information (which may change out from under
them.)
from PR/6787, but allow non-root users to use pw to get password
information. However, this should be safe since the fixes for
disallowing multiple instances from modifying the DB are still intact.
Bug noted by: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
run at the same time.
Notes:
The fileupdate function is still somewhat broken. Instead of
returning a failure code if it can't modify the original file it
renames the .new file and continues as though nothing is wrong.
This will cause the lock on the original file to be lost and could
lead to a similar race condition. I left that portion of the code
alone since I feel that the maintainer of the code would have a
better concept of how he wants to handle errors in that function
than I do.
PR: bin/6787
Submitted by: Craig Spannring <cts@internetcds.com>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
useradd -m or useradd -D -b are used.
2) Hyphen allowed in username if not first character. Fix trivial
bug in error fmt string.
3) /etc/skeykeys updating changed to do 'inplace' update, commenting
out a username rather than removing it completely.
will handle lines of any length in /etc/group.
2) Fixed bug with usermod -d not updating user's home
directory.
3) Minor formatting display changes/fixes with *show -P.
(/dev/urandom used by default under FreeBSD), and implemented a
"portable" but less secure generator for other systems.
Add display of expiry/password change dates in -P user display.
Sheldon Hearn
Peter Wemm
David Nugent
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Bill Fumerola
Joerg Wunsch
David E. O'Brien
Joseph Koshy
Nate Williams
Philippe Charnier
Steve Price
Wolfram Schneider
Tim Vanderhoek
Andrey A. Chernov
Daniel O'Callaghan
Jordan K. Hubbard