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#3 compile-time option to not store passwords

open-remind
nobody
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2003-07-10
2003-06-12
Anonymous
No

For the sake of security, I don't like having the
password to the whole user database stored on disk.
This patch changes all that.

./configure
patch -p1 <directory-patch
vi src/Makefile

(I add -DDONT_STORE_PASSWORD to the DEFS)

I would clean it up a bit (like adding ./configure
-options...) but I'm not sure what direction you'd want
to take this patch (if you take it). It could be
compile-time, or it could be run-time. Let me know
what you think, and I can put some more work into it...

This patch also allows a user to define their own
shells... (primarily because I want it to default to
/bin/bash, regardless of what machine I'm using...)

-Mark
(fassler -at- monkeysoft -dot- net)

Discussion

  • Nobody/Anonymous

    patch to 1.5

     
  • Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)

    • status: open --> open-remind
     
  • Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)

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    Good work! I'm going to ask you to and remove the DEFINE and
    simply put it in there, because I'm accepting this patch at
    once, and I don't want to have it fixed by me.

    I'm against DEFINEs =) Besides, the Makefile will be
    obliterated on the next autoconf configure run.

    Can you re-post the new patch in this same tracker item?

     

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