Re: Design? libshisa doesn't use shishi

[Simon Josefsson]

Elrond <address@hidden> writes:

> Just out of couriosity:
>
> Is it a design decision, that libshisa does not use any
> shishi_*?
> (Except for the obvious "Shisa*" does not have a
> "Shishi*".)
>
> If that is the case, can you let us know, why?

Yes, that was the intention.

My goal was that Shisa would be a very small and simple user database
interface library, so it could be used by GNU SASL and other
non-KerberosV5 packages too.  Other packages also need to lookup a
password for a user, and there is no such generic library on your
regular Debian box.  So that's why Shisa doesn't call any Shishi
functions.

Perhaps Shisa should be split off Shishi completely, although it is
somewhat krb5-specific right now.

Is this too restrictive?  Perhaps we can add a new library that use
functions from both Shisa and Shishi, which can be used by shishid and
other Shishi administration tools.

/Simon