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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:08:54 +0300
From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] pam_tcb update
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 02:37:58AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 03:33:28PM +0200, Solar Designer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 02:29:19AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > > I've got a few patches for pam_tcb. Tested in Sisyphus.
> >
> > Thanks. I think we should get these into Owl-current (even though these
> > changes don't matter much for Owl yet), test them a bit more in there,
> > then release tcb 1.2. For the testing in Owl-current, use version
> > numbers like 1.1.x or even 1.1.9.x (indicating that we're closer to 1.2
> > than to 1.1).
>
> OK, but I'm not sure I remember correctly how to get anything into
> Owl-current.
>
> > For the release, we also need updated LICENSE (copyright years) and
> > ChangeLog. We could also use this opportunity to relax the license for
> > our newly written source files (not inherited from pam_unix). There's
> > no reason to subject them to 3-clause BSD or GPL (BTW, of unspecified
> > version) that the whole thing is under for historical reasons - we can
> > as well use 0-clause BSD for them (add such comments to the files
> > themselves). If we go for this, we need to ask Rafal for his approval.
>
> I don't mind changing the license this way, although I don't see any
> practical difference so far.
>
> > > pam_tcb: use pam_get_authtok(3) instead of _unix_read_password
> >
> > Does this mean we're dropping OpenPAM support, which you had once added?
>
> No, I don't think so, OpenPAM provides pam_get_authtok with the same
> interface as in Linux-PAM since 2002-04-08 and claims it is an OpenPAM
> extension. Perhaps I should amend the commit message to mention this.
>
> I haven't tried to build anything with OpenPAM for quite some time, though.
>
> > > pam_tcb: request automatic prefix and entropy if libcrypt implements it
> >
> > Please add a 6th patch/commit that would change the default prefix from
> > $2y$ to $2b$ to be friendlier to OpenBSD. I understand that ALT has to
> > stay with $2y$ for a while longer, but I guess you can be overriding
> > this default on pam_tcb's command line.
>
> OK
I've finally managed to commit these changes.
--
ldv
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