Re: [Chicken-hackers] user-information update for OpenBSD

[Timo Myyrä]

John Cowan <address@hidden> writes:

> Peter Bex scripsit:
>
>> Yeah, but what if you're writing, say, a login manager or ssh replacement
>> in Scheme?  Then you need to be able to crypt & compare the password and
>> preferably use a portable API to get the crypted password.
>
> Then make such a portable API and don't try to use getpasswd() at all.
> Most modern systems have a service of some kind to handle login anyway.

So the user-information procedures documentation should just note that it won't
expose the encrypted password on OpenBSD and keep the code as it is?

Timo