Re: To be a new DFly commiter

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Grzegorz Błach napisał(a):
> Hi everyone,

hi

> I use DragonFly about 2 year,
> currently I am ready to submit my tweaks and extensions to DFly system.
> There're:
>
> 1.
> a) chg default password_format do blowfish since there are known
> algoritm of collision for md5.

i think it would be a good idea


> b) add support for openwall passwdqc (password checker) pam module (this
> was added to FreeBSD 5.0)
> c) add support for openwall tcb - the alternative to shadow (with pam
> module) which is more secure than pam_unix and pam_pwdb, because tools
> like 'passwd' or 'chage' don't neet SUID, instead it use SGID 'shadow'.
> Group 'auth' may be used to read-only access to all password hashes.
>
> 2.
> a) Replace sendmail with postfix (with cyrus-sasl). It is faster and use
> cleaner config file.

yes it is, i hate sendmail ...

> b) Add imap-uw as simple pop3 and imap4 daemon.

i prefer dovecot

> c) Add stunnel for SSL/TLS access to mail-related daemon.

i don't think it's necessary

> 3. Build alternative to pkgsrc packages system, which will be build on
> pacman from archlinux.org, and use tweaked PKGBUILD scripts.
> This packages system should be easier to maintain, and we will keep
> track on all our packages.
> For faster port packages to DFly, we can use makepkg with PKGBUILD
> (which is a shell script) or we can rewrite this scripts to Makefiles
> which will stop building package on error.
> I will rewrite pacman tool which will be use this same archive format,
> but for library to reading archives I'll use libarchive,
> and for fetching packages from net I'll use libfetch.
> I need name for this tool, because this should be different than pacman.

pacman would be great choice for old machines to have updated packages 
when we don't have "master" machine

> I hope I'll got write access to CVS for complete this steps.
>
>
> WHO I AM?
>
> I am a 21 old student from Krakow in Poland.
> 3 year's ago I worked on my own Linux distribution, but I halt this
> project, because I had romance with FreeBSD, and this system IMHO is
> more self-integrated than Slackware Linux, which I used earlier.
> And I played with him.
> For my distribution I ported crypt-blowfish from openwall.
> And when i halted work on my distripution i put patch for Slackware 10
> on http://www.openwall.com/crypt/.
> For FreeBSD i write coda (CD Digital-Audio Player),
> which is hosted on https://gna.org/projects/coda.
> And I ported fdisk from utils-linux package as lfdisk
> which is hosted on https://gna.org/projects/lfdisk.