On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 13:53:05 +0100 ilmich <ard...@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Michele,
> for my needs I'm developing some lightweight tools for users and > groups management (like useradd, userdel, groupadd and so on) and I'm > trying to adhere to POSIX standard and your guidelines. > If I wanted to release patches, ubase could be the right place!? given these tools are not standardized at all, ubase would be the right place. In this case though, one would have to think which underlying database to use. The shadow password format is most prominent nowadays, with all its drawbacks. You can read more about it here[0] (including manpages for the utils implemented in this format). I remember we discussed a relatively new concept that is better thought out, and we even discussed it on IRC a few years back regarding ubase, but I am not sure if it was OpenBSD's approach (see passwd(5)[1]). It would be interesting to implement it for Linux in some way, maybe even including conversion tools or something. What do the others think? With best regards Laslo [0]:https://www.mankier.com/package/shadow-utils [1]:https://man.openbsd.org/passwd.5 -- Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de>
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