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How are users supposed to change their password?
by PlutoIsAPlanet 3y ago
How are users supposed to change their password?
- rleigh 3y agoWhile using a setuid binary to edit the password/group "databases" is the historical default, there's no real technical reason why it must be that way. The passwd program could communicate with the database service via a socket. Likewise the NSS and PAM stuff could communicate with the same service via a socket. No reason for it to be lots of in-process loadable modules in this day and age.