Re: Design principles and ethics

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Tom Bachmann dies 30/04/2006 hora 21:21:
> > /sbin/passwd requires the authority to write the password database,
> > which the user does not have.
> Wrong. In my proposal she has the authority because there is no real
> ``password database''. There is just a file (say ~/.passwd) that
> contains the hash of the users password.

So there is no /sbin/passwd, and it was not considered in the question,
which about the program accessing a central password database (which I
agree we should avoid if we can, but that is not the point).

Quickly,
Nowhere man
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