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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
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