Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:49:54 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> 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: <4421.893270994@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:42:13 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422144042.523B-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422144042.523B-100000@sasami.jurai.net>, "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: >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.) What about the root password prompt in /sbin/init ? That is the only really troublesome case... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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