Bug 348561
| Summary: | Port yp-tools to use NSS library for cryptography | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> |
| Component: | yp-tools | Assignee: | Karel Klíč <kklic> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | rvokal, tmraz |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-11-16 23:06:51 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 333741 | ||
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Description
Peter Vrabec
2007-10-23 10:24:28 UTC
This bug is about the `yppasswd` utility, which uses crypt() function to encrypt new passwords. I considered porting this utility to use the NSS library. Two points why it does not make sense: 1. The libcrypt interface in glibc can use NSS internally: http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20948.html 2. yppasswd is deprecated, and no longer developed (see its man page for a proof). Some distributions have it only as a symlink to passwd. The first point is the reason why I am closing it as NOTABUG. |