Il giorno lun 26 nov 2018 alle ore 15:38 Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de> ha scritto: > Dear Michele,
Hi Laslo, thanks for your reply > 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. for now I've only implemented shadow format for compatibility with other tools of ubase (login and passwd). However, looking the OpenBSD approach I noticed that the public databases exported by pwd_mkdb are Berkley Db. The idea you discussed was in this kind of format!? I'm also studying OpenWall tcb[0] Cheers Michele [0]:https://www.openwall.com/tcb/
