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From: Edouard CORREIA <ded@magic.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: users management
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 21:13:55 +0000
Organization: Magic NET
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Hi,
I would like to manage users account to be sharable over several
hosts without register them in the OS password file, so I had make my own
users management APIs (getpwnam, etc...) which are compliant (structure
formats) with BSDI PW library.
I have compiled a new version of login and mail to accept these
"undeclared" users and I want to know if it is dangerous to make a setuid
call with a uid which doesn't exist in the password file? So what's bad
in making it?
Does a package exist (I don't want NIS) to manage user accounts over several
hosts?
Thanks in advance to reply...
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