Re: Design principles and ethics

[Tom Bachmann]

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Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> Apparently I did not see it. Here is the essential question:
> 
> /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.
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