Re: [dev] [PATCH] [ubase] Simplify login

From: Dimitris Papastamos <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 17:23:03 +0100

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 06:20:52PM +0200, FRIGN wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 17:13:49 +0100
> Dimitris Papastamos <sin_AT_2f30.org> wrote:
>
> > Yeah the uid, gid stuff are leftovers because I initially had shadow
> > support but could not be arsed to test it so I removed it.
>
> I don't see the reason behind shadow-support. Well, the purpose is to
> prevent bruteforcing the password.
> However, it's not like a simple login would stop you anyway. If you
> want to get someone's data, just mount the drive somewhere else and
> access it directly.

I don't care personally. We should definitely add /etc/passwd support
to su though because currently it only works with /etc/shadow.
Received on Mon Jun 02 2014 - 18:23:03 CEST