Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org>
* Package name : tcb Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Rafal Wojtczuk, Solar Designer, Dmitry V. Levin, et al * URL : https://www.openwall.com/tcb/ * License : BSD-3-Clause OR GPL Programming Lang: C Description : the alternative to /etc/shadow The tcb package contains core components of our tcb suite implementing the alternative password shadowing scheme on Owl. It is being made available separately from Owl primarily for use by other distributions. Note that to compile and use this you either need recent libxcrypt (which adopted the password hashing API we had introduced in Owl) or our crypt_blowfish patched into glibc (which is how we had introduced that API originally). The package consists of three components: pam_tcb, libnss_tcb, and libtcb. pam_tcb is a PAM module which supersedes pam_unix. It also implements the tcb password shadowing scheme. The tcb scheme allows many core system utilities (passwd(1) being the primary example) to operate with lower privileges. libnss_tcb is the accompanying NSS module. libtcb contains code shared by the PAM and NSS modules and is also used by user management tools on Owl due to our shadow suite patches, which live on in ALT Linux. /Simon
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