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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:42:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Static vs. dynamic linking (was Re: Using MD5 insted of DES ...) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422144042.523B-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <2234.893226907@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> I disagree, I think just the crypt problem is sufficient argument to
> go dynamic.

But its not really the only way to skin the cat.

You could have something like authd running and listening on a unix domain
socket and handeling non /etc/passwd auth requests.

(Yes its ugly, but in a different way.)

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