Re: [Chicken-hackers] user-information update for OpenBSD

[Timo Myyrä]

Christian Kellermann <address@hidden> writes:

> * Timo Myyrä <address@hidden> [160719 09:20]:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> OpenBSD-current was changed so that shadow database isn't opened by default 
>> anymore:
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.cvs/155646
>>
>> This affects calls to getpwnam and getpwuid functions which chicken uses for 
>> the
>> user-information procedure.
>>
>> I see two ways to fix this:
>>
>> 1) add defined(__OpenBSD__) checks to posixunix.scm to call the shadow 
>> versions of
>>    these functions if the encrypted password is really needed.
>>
>> or
>>
>> 2) add note to user-information that the OpenBSD doesn't provide the 
>> encrypted
>>    password and check if any eggs depend on having the password.
>
> Maybe it makes sense to split out the sensitive information from the
> user-information for all Operating systems and thinking of another set
> of procedures that will produce the credentials. These can then use OS
> specific functions to get at the information.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Christian
>
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I think that would be more sensible approach. user-information would return info
from /etc/passwd and then another procedure to get the encrypted password.

That would probably happen for 5.0?

Timo

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