Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 01:10:01 -0800 (PST) From: Anto Prijosoesilo <antop@netscape.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/10019: Bug in keyinfo and keyinit Message-ID: <199902130910.BAA11607@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/10019; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Anto Prijosoesilo <antop@netscape.net> To: gjp@gjp.erols.com, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/10019: Bug in keyinfo and keyinit Date: 13 Feb 99 16:02:21 ICT gjp@gjp.erols.com wrote: > Give them individual accounts, and use a modified sudo (as found in ports) to > let them use their own passwords to get to the role account. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll probably go this route in the future. I think the point I was trying to make was valid though. If the system asks me for user1's S/Key password when I login as user1 and user2's when I do user2 then I would expect the other related utilities to behave similarly. It they don't whether the "different" behavior is documented, I would assume that there's a bug.. right?. Especially when there's an easy fix to make them consistent. As long as there is this inconsistency I would view it as a bug. Changing the S/Key database to use uid instead of login names would make it consistent as far as S/Key is concerned. That would, however, break compatibility with regular UNIX authentication where each login name has its own password that isn't shared with others even those sharing the same UID. It would also break compatibility with OPIE. If you think this PR should be closed, please do. I'll keep my local changes because I like my system to be consistent. ____________________________________________________________________ More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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