kde KUser - expires accounts

[Wes Peters]

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 02:42, Paul Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:50:44AM -0500, Rick Flosi wrote:
> > I used KUser to add a user to my system and after saving the
> > changes I made KUser expired all user accounts except the newly
> > created one.
>
> <snip explanation of going into single-user and undoing the expiries>
>
> > Does anyone know if there is a patch for KUser to fix this problem.
> > I found some discussion about this but it was from Feb. 2003 and I
> > was unable to find a patch.
>
> I'm just curious what the "problem" is? If you tell KUser to expire
> all accounts, surely, that's what it should do... personally, I would
> advise that the maintainers of KUser take the option away. I can't
> think of a practical application where you would need to expire all
> users.

Anyone who runs a publicly accessable shell server can come up with 
dozens of them without even thinking.  You probably *don't* want it to 
disable the root account, and possibly also exclude all accounts in the 
'wheel' group.

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Wes Peters                                              wes at softweyr.com