Re: Re: To be a new DFly commiter

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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:53:35 +0100, "est_seg@o2.pl / mail" wrote:

> 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

imap-uw is a simple daemon and IMO this should be in base system.
If you need more advanced tool you can install dovecot from packages.

> 
> > 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.
> 
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