> On 2016/05/06 16:44, Jyri Hovila [Turvamies.fi] wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyways, it would be really nice if we can get the issues resolved
> > > before end of June, because 6.0 should have this.  It is a valuable
> > > security improvement.
> > 
> > Amen to that!
> > 
> > -j.
> 
> Feel free to investigate the ports I mentioned then. Diffs to
> ports@ please - you can test that they work using tedu's diff
> that will avoid filling in pw_passwd in the struct, it's usually
> just a case of s/(getpwuid|getpwnam)/\1_shadow/.

- 1 line change to libc
- rebuild libc
- test all the ports sthen listed
- test dependencies of those ports, also
- look for failure, help fix them

It's not black magic.  Anyone who knows what source code is, can help.
 

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