[1683] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: issue list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Fri Aug 30 21:51:59 1996
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 21:51:49 -0400
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Cc: krbcore@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz's message of Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:40:25 EDT,
<199608302340.TAA16594@rover.CYGNUS.COM>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:40:25 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
This recently showed up in the file:
- problems with conflicting db in libc: netbsd [raeburn, marc]
*punt* -- the only possible problem is kadmind using getpwent.
The other place a problem can happen is in ftpd. I'd still punt, but
for a different reason: the problem is an OS problem, and can be fixed
Nope --- because the only place where db is being used now is in the
KDC-side code. We've removed db from aname_to_lname(), so ftpd (or any
application client or server) will never need to drag in our version of
db.
Hence, it's only the KDC-side code that we need to worry about, and the
only KDC-side code which might possibly need getpwent() would be
kadmind, if it wanted to do smart password-quality checking.
- Ted
