Nico Williams

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See [today's thread on gen-art about this](https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/gen-art/sOfvzujW7MW62LEr3AtWt2uM1kY/). The answer to: > Why aren't per-directory well-known locations defined? Given in Appendix A could be moved into Section 3. > Allowing every...

well-known

`goto *_deferrals[--_num_deferrals]` is not portable C :( There is good news though: you could use a Duff's device so that each deferral is a switch case and then you can...

This PR adds: - access to the system RNG on *nix (via `/dev/urandom`) and Windows (via CNG) - dynamically-loadable C-coded builtin support for modules - support for "builtin modules" named...

feature request

I use dark background themes on my terminals. In VIM I `set bg=dark`. The color palette that bitwise uses makes it difficult to see some things (e.g., those in dark...

enhancement
good first issue

I looked at the source code using cscope and I find that `pam_sm_authenticate()` returns `PAM_SUCCESS` on success. However, biometrics identification is NOT authentication, therefore biometrics modules' `pam_sm_authenticate()` should only: a)...

question

Like I do for my own. Just allow the color selections to get dragged into the PS1 box. This makes it easy to color branch and path names (for example)...

feature_request

If you start $PS1 with ': ' and end with '; ' then you cut-n-paste entire command lines more easily (no need to grab from the end of the prompt)....

feature_request

We're considering changes to Heimdal's `kinit`'s default behaviors. We want to make it more useful, less surprising, and more user-friendly. # Final design - `kinit` - add behavior selection options...

You can now have `[kadmin]` `exec_hook = path-to-program` in `krb5.conf` and `kadmin -l`, `kadmind`, and `httpkadmind`, and any user of `libkadm5srv` will end up executing that hook. That will execute...