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Re: Sh*dow Passwords?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafal Maszkowski)
Tue Mar 7 15:47:08 1995
From: rzm@oso.chalmers.se (Rafal Maszkowski)
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 19:58:02 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <9503071628.aa17176@ci3ux.ci.pwr.wroc.pl> from "Marek Michalkiewicz" at Mar 7, 95 04:28:52 pm
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Marek Michalkiewicz writes:
> > 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.
> I think I might volunteer to help with this. I have spent quite some time
> reading the source of shadow suite and fixing some bugs... (These fixes
> are not released yet, please be patient.)
Wonderful! Can you write it without using non-GPL code?
> Just a thought: to stop the whole mess with separate shadow/non-shadow
> binaries, we could do this: make them all shadow-aware, but if there is
> no shadow password, use the non-shadow one instead. Something like this:
Probably better way is to do the same in libraries. Isn't it there already?
R.
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