Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 07:46:11 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list) Message-ID: <200002180546.HAA25779@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <200002180127.UAA83711@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> ; from Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:27:23 EST." References: <200002180127.UAA83711@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> I'm very uncomfortable with requiring Yet Another Daemon to manage > (and screw up) password checking. Generally speaking, if I wouldn't > trust a program with root privileges, I wouldn't trust it with my > password, either (for obvious reasons). If "all those" suid programs could be "de-suid'ed", and replaced with a simple "does this username/password pair check out?" daemon/module, would that make you happier? M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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