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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!daimi!poe
- From: poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: poeigl-1.6 and admutil-1.3 available
- Keywords: init getty login getpass
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.133838.8227@daimi.aau.dk>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 13:38:38 GMT
- Sender: news@daimi.aau.dk
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Lines: 48
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- I just uploaded poeigl-1.6.tar.Z and admutil-1.3.tar.Z to nic.funet.fi
- and tsx-11.
-
- Login now uses the new vhangup() syscall to prevent others from snooping
- at the tty for passwords and other goodies.
-
- There is also a new getpass() routine based upon some BSD code, as it has
- become evident that the version that I contributed to libc, doesn't work
- with telnet over TCP/IP. I hope the new version works better, but I haven't
- been able to test it, because I haven't got a TCP/IP kernel.
-
- The passwd program is changed a little to allow passwords with only lowercase
- letters when there is at least one special character or digit in it.
- It also explicitly prevents the use of ones username as password.
-
- The shutdown program now tries even harder to avoid getting stuck when
- /etc/utmp is corrupted.
-
- Acknowledgements:
- -----------------
- Ross Biro <bir7@leland.stanford.edu> made me avare of the vhangup() call.
-
- Johan W}hlin <d88-jwn@nada.kth.se> provided the fix for passwd.c
-
- My thanks to both of them.
-
- As always, the packages contains only sourcecode. The binaries can be built
- under Linux 0.97P1+ or later with at least gcc-2.2.2
-
- To those that do not already know, the poeigl package contains:
-
- init, getty, login, hostname, mesg, users, who, write
-
- and admutils contains:
-
- chsh, ctrlaltdel, init, last, newgrp, passwd, shutdown, reboot,
- halt, su
-
- I have put the packages out for anon ftp at:
-
- ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/Linux-source
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/<whereever tytso puts them>
- nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/<whereever arl puts them>
-
- - Peter. <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
- --
- Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
- Hasle Ringvej 122, DK-8200 Aarhus N, DENMARK
-