Access control for reading.

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> On 1 Feb 2001, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Viewed from that perspective, all I think you need is an option to
>> ckpasswd to return the user's group instead of their username and an
>> option to the ident resolver that does the same.

> Bleargh, duplicate code.  But yeah, I guess that would work.

Anyone who wants to factor out a whole bunch of duplicated code between
the authenticators and make it into a library has my blessing and thanks.
:)  But in this case, it's not that much code, just a getpwnam and a
getgrgid.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>