Re: OBSD ready for eiser4?

[Raymond Morsman <raymond@dyn.org>]

Citeren Christian Schäfer <caefer@krachstoff.net>:

> hi all,
> 
> I read about the upcomming reiserfs 4 and everything sounds so great
> (and so reasonable as well). some projects like the selinux-kernel
> will support it and I am sure so will openbsd eventually.

Why? I'm pretty sure you're wrong here.

> the whole file/directory thingy offers so much possibilities but most
> if not all software would have to be rewritten I think.

Even if it would be used, I don't see why it should be rewritten. Probably a few
libraries.

> this would make pam/shadow obsolete right?

It was just an example, but yes, if this kind passwd files were introduced
shadow passwordfiles would be obsolete, but PAM is a different thing. That
defines authentication methods for services, not just local file authentication.

> is there something going on?

I would be amazed if anbody would confirm this.

Raymond.