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2006 Sep 27
0
dovecot checkpassword passdb and vmailmgr
...ake them available at the same page I used for the former
solution [ http://mij.oltrelinux.com/net/dovecot-qmail-vmailmgr ];
there were some 20 people/month that checked it out.
This is a brief explanation of the patches:
The root of all evil is that the checkpassword interface
[ http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/interface.html ] leaves room to
interpretation
when the scope is not system login. Vmailmgr and vpopmail, for
example, collapse many mail users on the same system account.
So, what "home" is here is not specified.
In the case of vmailmgr, it's "checkvpw" sets HOME to the s...
2001 Dec 21
6
Killing the builtin entropy code
Over the holidays, I intend to finally rid portable OpenSSH of the
builtin entropy collection code. Here's what I intend to do:
When init_rng is called, we'll check OpenSSL's RAND_status(). If this
indicates that their PRNG is already seeded, we'll do nothing. This
effectively detects platforms which have /dev/urandom (or similar)
configured into OpenSSL.
If OpenSSL isn't