[44] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: Sh*dow Passwords?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Swasey)
Tue Mar 7 12:27:14 1995
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <199503070933.KAA25587@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 10:14:21 -0500
From: "Frank Swasey" <frank_swasey@VNET.IBM.COM>
Reply-To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
>>
>> Yes, this would be very nice. Rewrite the shadow suite from scratch, GPL the
>> whole damned thing, and tell John to shove it. The current shadow package
>> is a monster, there is no reason it can't be 1/2 to 1/3 the size it
>> currently is.
As someone who is a programmer and has not even looked at the shadow code in
over a year (and never seriously studied it at all) -- I'd volunteer to work on
the programming side of this.
Anyone want to map out ideas of how to do this?
Frank
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