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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/chpass chpass.c pw_copy.c pw_copy.h 
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:30:42 +0000
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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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
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