From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 5 14:34:48 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F81F37B416; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:34:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id CEE0E5341; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 23:34:38 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: Mark Murray , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_unix pam_unix.c References: <20020205214703.GA8579@nagual.pp.ru> <200202052219.g15MJhs32408@greenpeace.grondar.org> <20020205222829.GA9120@nagual.pp.ru> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 05 Feb 2002 23:34:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020205222829.GA9120@nagual.pp.ru> Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Andrey A. Chernov" writes: > 3) All programs behave like they _owns_ random() internal state and not > expect any damages from the libraries here. If you want PAM be special, it > must be well documented in all visible PAM manpages and docs. I agree with Andrey here, pam_unix(8) should not clobber random()'s internal state. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message