From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/5223 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: u-igbb@aetey.se Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl 1.0.x branch -- OT Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:13:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20140610211307.GH20596@example.net> References: <20140606175617.GA3914@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140609112352.1e7ad51e@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> <20140609200830.GK179@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140610094351.GE20596@example.net> <20140610160356.GL179@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20140610232506.7f9558c2@ncopa-laptop> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402434819 18889 80.91.229.3 (10 Jun 2014 21:13:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:13:39 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-5228-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Jun 10 23:13:34 2014 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 1WuTMM-0007yO-Jj for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:13:34 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 28298 invoked by uid 550); 10 Jun 2014 21:13:33 -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 28288 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2014 21:13:33 -0000 X-T2-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 Received-SPF: none receiver=mailfe06.swip.net; client-ip=195.154.85.232; envelope-from=u-igbb@aetey.se Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140610232506.7f9558c2@ncopa-laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:5223 Archived-At: On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:25:06PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote: > You probably knew but this is what OpenBSD does instead of suid + PAM: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Authentication > > I have always liked this approach. +1 SUN invented several things which became hugely popular. Unfortunately quite a few of them were extremely flawed by design. Nsswitch, NFS and PAM are notable examples of the latter. Nice that we can at least skip nsswitch with musl. Rune