From owner-freebsd-security Wed Apr 22 12:01:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17948 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:01:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17461 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:59:44 GMT (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA12726; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:56:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:56:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Nate Williams , Peter Wemm , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Static vs. dynamic linking (was Re: Using MD5 insted of DES ...) In-Reply-To: <4421.893270994@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > What about the root password prompt in /sbin/init ? > > That is the only really troublesome case... I was proposing that a small library that knows how to speak to /dev/.authd be used instead of a PAM like scheme. If authd wasn't running it would just use the regular /etc/passwd routines. (We really wouldn't need a different library, just some knobs in libc). /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message