sorry for html...
pon., 26 lis 2018 o 17:40 Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegie...@gmail.com> napisał(a): > > > > pon., 26 lis 2018 o 17:21 ilmich <ard...@gmail.com> napisał(a): >> >> Il giorno lun 26 nov 2018 alle ore 15:38 Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de> >> ha scritto: >> > Dear Michele, >> >> > 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. >> >> for now I've only implemented shadow format for compatibility with >> other tools of ubase (login and passwd). >> >> 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!? > > > 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. > > [1] https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/lib/libc/db/ > > Best regards, > Daniel >
