Subject: Re: pw_dup(3)
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@reziprozitaet.de>
List: tech-security
Date: 09/10/2003 14:00:22
itojun@itojun.org (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino) writes:

>> Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:10:34PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>> >   | 	i propose to add this into libc.
>> >
>> > do you intend to use it by other libc (or lib*) functions, or is this
>> > purely an "end user app" thing.  if the latter, is libutil more
>> > appropriate?
>> >
>> > otherwise, looks useful.
>> 
>> On that note, is there any ongoing work on the getpw{nam,uid}_r(3)
>> front?  That would make pw_dup(3) fairly pointless.
>
> 	i propose to bring in BIND8, and the proposal got rejected.
> 	i still think BIND8 is the way to go.

Actually, how is that issue related to passwd/group database
operations, other than tossing nsswitch?


- Klaus