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Date:      Wed, 03 Jun 1998 01:08:29 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org>, "freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: MD5 v. DES? 
Message-ID:  <199806030808.BAA11430@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 19:46:35 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980601192403.6508C-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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> environment, it might be desirable to have an "authentication daemon" that
> listens on a unix domain socket (or such).  Daemons like CMU's imapd

This looks like a nice clean approach, however what if the daemon (or 
something else for that matter) is broken?  I suppose falling back to a 
primitive level of authentification, e.g. only /etc/passwd, to ensure 
that the system is not totally hosed.

Any thoughts?


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Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Open Systems Group          Internet:  cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca
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