On 2017/12/07 20:26, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> net/tacacs+ shows its age, the md5 code uses "long" as if it was 32
> bits, which probably doesn't fly on amd64.  DES supports relies on
> crypt(3), which our libc doesn't support.  End result: I was not able to
> perform a single successful auth with Authen::TacacsPlus.  Also the
> logging code suffers from at least one stack overflow.  So afaics the
> current port is unusable.
> 
> Our current port already needs patches to build with clang, along with
> getpwnam_shadow & LP64 stuff (not all of them are fixed).  Quite
> a maintenance burden.
> 
> So I propose to just delete this port for now.  If people are actually
> interested in tacacs+ support, they can still propose a new port based
> on the newer, much cleaner releases published by the folks at
> shrubbery.net.
> 
> ok to kill it?

Your research is convincing. OK!

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