Re: [Bug-sysutils] passwd-ng: Strange output from --help

[David Weinehall]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 02:42:52PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    But we need to know what help-text to show; normal users
>    cannot user all options if lsuser and lsgroup isn't installed
>    suid/sgid.
> 
> All options should be showed at all times, one can make a section like
> tar has, for example:
> 
> ,----
> | Usage: lsgroup [OPTION]...
> | Blablabla...
> | 
> |   -f, --foo                  foo
> | 
> | Options avaiable to the super-user.
> |   -b, --bar                  bar
> `----
> 
> As for installing lsuser/lsgroup suid, why not try and make it not
> require anything that needs suid things?

Because then it doesn't provide the full functionality...  It should
still work though.

>    > Aside from that I will try to look into what this error is.  This
>    > is on a GNU/Hurd machine so maybe I need to try it on a GNU/Linux
>    > box.
> 
>    The problem is that it cannot find /etc/shadow and/or /etc/gshadow.
>    These files are a requisite for things to work properly.
> 
> This is only true if and only if you use shadowed passwords.

Yes, but that's a default assumption in my code, since if you don't use
shadow-passwords, you might as well use password-less accounts...  And
you won't be able to have group-administrators, aging-information etc.


Regards: David Weinehall
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