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[bug#30037] [PATCH] gnu: whois: Remove bundled mkpasswd.
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice |
Subject: |
[bug#30037] [PATCH] gnu: whois: Remove bundled mkpasswd. |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:57:53 +0100 |
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ng0,
ng0 wrote on 10/01/18 at 15:55:
> What if someone under account root install 'whois' into their
> profile.
[together with expect, source of The Other Mkpasswd.]
> Wouldn't they have 2 mkpasswd now in their path of exectuables and
> encounter a collision?
Presumably.
> Should we rename it for the sake of namespace collisions reduction?
I don't think this case warrants manual intervention.
Whois' mkpasswd encrypt()s a given passwd and prints the result.
Expect's generates a random string that satisfies some criteria.
Neither are what I'd call day-to-day system administration tools.
I'd rather give users deterministic control over any collision, but
now who's bikeshedding (with no intention to write the code)... :-)
Kind regards,
T G-R
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