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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 23:30:58 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: "struct db_password" allocation

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:26:18PM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> I just found that someone added a field called "uid" to "struct
> db_password"

BTW, this looks wasteful even with the memory allocation corrected.
The only use is:

                log_guess(crk_db->options->flags & DB_LOGIN ? replogin : "?",
                          crk_db->options->flags & DB_LOGIN ? repuid : "",

Maybe we should drop this field, or maybe we should merge its value into
the login string at loading instead of maintaining a separate pointer.
Even if we don't want to fully merge them, we can do smarter - e.g.,
treat login as a "double string" - assume that there's a second string
after the first NUL unless the first string was empty.  Or something.

Alexander

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