Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:30:42 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/chpass chpass.c pw_copy.c pw_copy.h Message-ID: <200203181330.g2IDUgH5023774@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020318081017.13492G-100000@fledge.watson.org> ; from Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> "Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:11:20 EST." References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020318081017.13492G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> > There is a lot of password-related stuff spread about the tree in this > > messy way (chpass, vipw, chsh(and friends), passwd and so on). I would > > vote very strongly for such a change. > > > > I started doing it some time ago, and lost track in the tangled thread. > > A remarkably number of userland tools assume that access to passwd > information is in libc. Would such a change move this completely out of > libc and require modifying the linkages involved for all of these, or is > this a lower-level kind of thing? It is a messed-up kind of thing. I'd like to see this moved back to either libc or libutil. There are repocopies of some of the pw_*.[ch] files that are now divergent and annoyingly incompatable. I think these need to go to some system library (after being cleaned up). M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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