Re: unified pwutil library - thoughts?

2001-07-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:36 AM -0500 7/2/01, Damieon Stark wrote: Below is the message I sent about a unified libpwutil, and possibly integrating it into FreeBSD. _ANY_ feedback, positive or negitive would be appreciated as it will help to validate my existance ;) I like the idea, but I must admit to not having

Re: unified pwutil library - thoughts?

2001-07-02 Thread Damieon Stark
Hey all... So, by the fact that I got _no_ replies I must surmise that either my message didn't get posted (confirmed posting with archive), or people didn't read it, or _nobody_ thinks it is a good idea ;) but if nobody thinks it is a good idea, I _think_ I would have gotten some

unified pwutil library - thoughts?

2001-06-24 Thread Damieon Stark
Hey all, Ok, so my thinking goes a little like this: having chpass, vipw, passwd, rpc.yppasswdd et. al. using the same functions (pw_copy, pw_temp, pw_init...) and then, in order to update the database calling a function which does nothing more than execl(pwd_mkdb) and exit seems kinda