Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:02:08 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/chpass chpass.c pw_copy.c pw_copy.h Message-ID: <200203181302.g2ID28H5020685@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <20020318041901.A59516@blossom.cjclark.org> ; from "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> "Mon, 18 Mar 2002 04:19:01 PST." References: <20020318041901.A59516@blossom.cjclark.org>
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> This is all quite a mess. We have chpass(8) using __pw_scan from libc > and source in vipw(8), and PAM modules sharing all of this code > too. Wouldn't the Right Thing be to put these functions in a library > somewhere? I think NetBSD has a lot of this stuffed in libutil. There is a lot of password-related stuff spread about the tree in this messy way (chpass, vipw, chsh(and friends), passwd and so on). I would vote very strongly for such a change. I started doing it some time ago, and lost track in the tangled thread. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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