From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1561 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Design for extensible passwd[/shadow?] db support Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:46:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20120813134649.GW27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20538.50.0.229.11.1344817584.squirrel@lavabit.com> <20120813003110.GU27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344865557 22373 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2012 13:45:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:45:57 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1562-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Aug 13 15:45:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T0uxy-0007Qp-8T for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:45:58 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 10073 invoked by uid 550); 13 Aug 2012 13:45:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 10065 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2012 13:45:53 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1561 Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:45:50PM +0200, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: > 2012/8/13 Rich Felker : > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 08:26:24PM -0400, idunham@lavabit.com wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, is PAM excluded from consideration? Does it require a > >> dynamically-loaded library? > > > > PAM is not an implementation of the user database. It's for > > authenticating logins. Completely different problem domain. > > A bit off topic: Is the traditional PAM/shadow will be supported in > musl? I would like to use full PAM/shadow/tcb stack from the Owl > with musl (+owl's pam modules). If not, what would be an alternative proposal? It's intended that these libraries work on musl, but I'm not aware of whether they do yet or not. I think tcb wants the gensalt stuff in libc, so that probably won't work without some patching. Rich