Re: dot-locking
'Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:'
>
> 'lckpwd', the password locking routine in libc, is an interesting
>function. It does not perform the link, and therefore would not be
>'nfs' safe. I don't think it needs to be though, on most systems,
>does it? A 'transnames' patched system may well need 'nfs' safe
>/etc/passwd locking. There is a 'pragma weak' on the 'lckpwd'
>functions... I think this means that a LD_PRELOAD is allowed to
>replace it, is that right?
I would very much like to NFS mount /etc/security (is that what the
shadow passwd suite uses?). So I'd call it a bug (ahem, limitation) in
libc.
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