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Re: [Chicken-hackers] user-information update for OpenBSD
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Timo Myyrä |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-hackers] user-information update for OpenBSD |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 08:03:58 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (berkeley-unix) |
John Cowan <address@hidden> writes:
> Peter Bex scripsit:
>
>> Yeah, but what if you're writing, say, a login manager or ssh replacement
>> in Scheme? Then you need to be able to crypt & compare the password and
>> preferably use a portable API to get the crypted password.
>
> Then make such a portable API and don't try to use getpasswd() at all.
> Most modern systems have a service of some kind to handle login anyway.
So the user-information procedures documentation should just note that it won't
expose the encrypted password on OpenBSD and keep the code as it is?
Timo