Re: password API needed

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@switchboard.net)
Fri, 8 May 1998 11:22:10 +0000 (GMT)

Date:	Fri, 8 May 1998 11:22:10 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
To:	Jean-Francois Micouleau <Jean-Francois.Micouleau@utc.fr>
Subject: Re: password API needed
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.980507213459.14222K-100000@kappa.utc.fr>

jean-f,

in your ldap code, you make the distinction between a "machine" account
and a "user" account. can you remove this distinction? machine acounts
_are_ user accounts, and "machine" accounts is a misleading name: they are
actually a subset of trust accounts. therefore, can we refer to them as
"trust" accounts from now?

the uint16 acct_ctrl member, when the ACB_WKSTRUST bit is set, correctly
and uniquely identifies the account as a workstation trust account.

there just happens to be an additional (redundant but "visual-in-text")
method to identify a trust account: it ends with $.

luke