Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list)

[Peter Wemm]

Mark Murray wrote:
> > I'm very uncomfortable with requiring Yet Another Daemon to manage
> > (and screw up) password checking.  Generally speaking, if I wouldn't
> > trust a program with root privileges, I wouldn't trust it with my
> > password, either (for obvious reasons).
> 
> If "all those" suid programs could be "de-suid'ed", and replaced with
> a simple "does this username/password pair check out?" daemon/module,
> would that make you happier?

As long as there is some sort of rate limiting system so that it doesn't
provide a trivial online brute force password cracking service...  Getting
this right would be an interesting challenge. :-)

Cheers,
-Peter




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