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Added security checks for mbuseradd

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Michiel Broek
2005-08-27 14:17:14 +00:00
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<div align="right"><h5>Last update 02-Feb-2001</h5></div>
<div align="right"><h5>Last update 27-Aug-2005</h5></div>
<div align="center"><H1>mbuseradd - The useradd wrapper.</H1></div>
<H3>Sysnopsis.</H3>
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ things that need to be done as <strong>root</strong> to create a new Unix
account that can be used with MBSE BBS. The solution for these problems is
<strong>mbuseradd</strong>, this little program runs setuid root and setgid
root. If it fails to do that it aborts. <strong>mbuseradd</strong> is called
by <strong>mbsebbs</strong> from the newuser function. You never need to
run <strong>mbuseradd</strong> by hand. If it is successfull the user will
by <strong>mbnewusr</strong> and checks if it's called like that.
If it is successfull the user will
have an entry in /etc/passwd, the comment is his Fidonet name, and his shell
is $MBSE_ROOT/bin/mbsebbs.
<P>
@@ -58,9 +58,8 @@ installed setuid root and setgid root, ls -la looks like this:<br>
<H3>Commands.</H3>
<P>
<code><strong>mbuseradd</strong> [gid] [name] [comment] [usersdir]</code> for example:<br>
<pre>
mbuseradd bbs mbroek "Michiel Broek" /opt/mbse/home
Not mentioned here because <b>mbuseradd</b> is only called by mbnewusr,
running manually is not supported.
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