Re: [Cooker] proposals: more encryption/auth enhancements

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

Em Wednesday 30 April 2008 12:09:30 Fabrice Facorat escreveu:
> 2008/4/30 Vincent Danen <vdanen@mandriva.com>:
> 
> >
> >  Now, I could easily package pam_passwdqc and stick it in contrib quite
> >  simply.  That's no problem.  TCB support is a little trickier.  TCB
> >  doesn't *need* to be enabled, but it does need to be in main (because
> >  util-linux would need to be patched and there would be a dependency on
> >  libtcb).  Also, implementing TCB support *without* blowfish support in
> >  glibc is not really my idea of time well-spent as TCB can work fine with
> >  md5/crypt passwords, but why go through the effort to get a half
> >  implementation?  Putting blowfish support in glibc, and then tcb, would
> >  work best.  And pam_tcb can replace pam_unix completely without forcing
> >  the use of the /etc/tcb/* layout; you can still use /etc/shadow.
> 
> 
> >  The first proposal is to add blowfish support to glibc.
> 
> +1

As I did the last updates to glibc, I don't see the problem to add
blowfish, if you want please go ahead and commit it. It only can cause
some extra work later when updating the package (having to rediff or
redo some parts of the patch).

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Herton