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pon., 26 lis 2018 o 17:40 Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka_AT_gmail.com>
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> pon., 26 lis 2018 o 17:21 ilmich <ardutu_AT_gmail.com> napisał(a):
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>> Il giorno lun 26 nov 2018 alle ore 15:38 Laslo Hunhold <dev_AT_frign.de>
>> ha scritto:
>> > Dear Michele,
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>> > I remember we discussed a relatively new concept that is better thought
>> > out, and we even discussed it on IRC a few years back regarding ubase,
>> > but I am not sure if it was OpenBSD's approach (see passwd(5)[1]). It
>> > would be interesting to implement it for Linux in some way, maybe even
>> > including conversion tools or something.
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>> for now I've only implemented shadow format for compatibility with
>> other tools of ubase (login and passwd).
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>> However, looking the OpenBSD approach I noticed that the public
>> databases exported by pwd_mkdb are Berkley Db.
>> The idea you discussed was in this kind of format!?
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> 1) Note that struct passwd is not compatible with linux libc ABI (pw_class).
> 2) pwd_mkdb: This is used to avoid multiple opening of passwd files. If you
> have thousands of users on the 25-year old server, it is ok. But today, this
> approach does not really make sense.
> 3) Berkley DB: They use the old db (version 1.85) and have it built into the
> libc [1]. For linux users, this would require a separate db installation and this
> is a bad way.
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> [1] https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/lib/libc/db/
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> Best regards,
> Daniel
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