[tac_plus] Re: Patch for tac_pwd

[john heasley]

Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:52:35AM -0600, Schmidt, Daniel:
> Better yet, why not just replace tac_pwd with a little shell script or
> python program that runs mkpasswd --hash=md5?  tac_pwd only works for
> the first 8 characters anyway.  

I agree that md5 support needs to be added to tac_pwd.  but, it can not
rely upon mkpasswd existing.

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> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:03 AM
> To: Maarten Carels
> Cc: tac_plus at shrubbery.net
> Subject: [tac_plus] Re: Patch for tac_pwd
> 
> Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 02:33:01PM +0200, Maarten Carels:
> > tac_pwd echoes the password by default, this can be prevented by the
> -e flag.
> > 
> > Here is a patch that
> > * changes the default so the password is not echoed
> > * adds a -E flag to tac_pwd to force echo
> 
> Thanks, but why change the default?  The ability to turn off echoing is
> already there in -e.
> 
> > Manual page is also patched.
> > 
> > --maarten
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