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Date:      Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:29:22 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: YP-like mySQL thing
Message-ID:  <19990202142921.E84751@florence.pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <199902020728.KAA06671@shuttle.svib.ru>; from Alex Povolotsky on Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 10:28:13AM %2B0300
References:  <199902020728.KAA06671@shuttle.svib.ru>

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On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 10:28:13AM +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've made a patch to libc to allow YP-like extension of passwd file using mySQL. 
> 
> I can share it if anyone is interested, and I need an advise: how should I 
> rebuild libc.so (or what else?) so that shared executables would pick 
> libmysqlclient.so without rebuilding?

How do you get around the insecurity of mysql?  i.e. any user on the system
can pretend to be user root using the -u option to mysql.

Joe
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