chpasswd for busybox

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 06 January 2006 14:33, Andreas Banze wrote:
> On Fri Jan 06, 2006 - 12:58:46PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > I saw this link from a patch :
> > > http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2004-June/011816.html
> > >
> > > and was wondering is there is a reason that chpasswd wasn't added to
> > > busybox.
> >
> > Because the attached patch is a ".bin" file, whatever that is?  (What is
> > that, macintosh binhex?)
> >
> > I just looked at it again, and couldn't extract it.
>
> actually it is gzip as indicated by the header of the attachment as well
> (and no, I don't have a clue why the poster decided to name it .bin)

the poster didnt do that, the mailing lists rewrites all attachments in the 
archive to '.bin' for "binary"
-mike