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pwd_mkdb: retire legacy v3 db support (-l option)
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Authored by emaste on Apr 20 2018, 6:41 PM.
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pwd_mkdb has emitted v4 password database records since 2003 (rS113596) in addition to v3, and as of rS283981 by default it emitted only v4. As described in rS283981, retire the -l legacy option.

Additionally, set the db hash to be in network byte order (big-endian) as with other integers in the database. The db(3) functions work with a hash of either endianness. Using a fixed endianness allows us to create a password database that's reproducible regardless of host endianness.

The -B and -L options were originally added to set the endianness of v3 records emitted by pwd_mkdb, but they also set the db hash endiannes and so have been retained temporarily.

Mentioned on the FreeBSD-Current and FreeBSD-Stable lists
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2018-April/088782.html

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usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8
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Bump .Dd upon commit

usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.c
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Will add a deprecation warning in B and L cases.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 21 2018, 5:57 AM

Thanks for review. My plan:

  • commit the change to default to BIG_ENDIAN hashes (rS332902)
  • merge deprecation notice in the program, in man page, and the rS332902 BIG_ENDIAN change to stable/11 in the next few of days (with Relnotes: yes)
  • commit this change (additionally with deprecation notice in -B / -L) to HEAD (with Relnotes: yes)
  • remove -B and -L in a few months (with Relnotes: yes)
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.