Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 18:23:52 -0500 From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: group(5) Group Passwords do not work Message-ID: <20130207232352.GA51387@night.db.net>
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Hi, I've been looking at pw & friends for a while when this PR was brought to my attention. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/167741 Right now group passwords in /etc/group are marked with * I'm told some linux distributions are marking this as "NOTUSED" Clearly our man pages should either be changed to make it much more clear that this stuff does not work and will never work in FreeBSD or the code should be changed to make it work. ;) Mark Saad spent some time checking this. If it is stated it is never going to be made to work, by core or whatever, some of the code in libutil + pw can be simplified a bit. It was also suggested on IRC that it is also possible that some pam code does expect group passwords to work or at least passed through. How are we to proceed folks? - Diane -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
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