[343] in Hesiod
Re: Hesiod 2.0.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Dec 24 03:27:10 1996
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 03:25:57 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ottawa.on.ca>
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson), russell@flora.ottawa.on.ca, hesiod@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[335] in Hesiod"
> I am using the 'shadow passwords' to allow a hes_getpwname() to get
> the 'Finger info' and other stuff from HESIOD, while obtaining the
> password from a separate file (In this case, conforming to the
> specification used by the APACHE DBM file format) that is then not
> distributed.
Sorry to take so long to get back to you on this. As you probably
guessed, I don't want to take these changes. I don't want to
introduce a dependency on the APACHE DBM file format, and this problem
can be handled at the application level better than it can be handled
in the Hesiod library. That is, I don't want to implement local
authentication policy in the Hesiod library; the passwd, service, and
mailhost functions are simply convenient interfaces to the Hesiod
namespace.
