5 lines of bash...
... and over 50 years of operating systems development.
... and over 50 years of operating systems development.
Too many software project just ignore the underlying abstractions of the OS they run on. I feel weird with all this virtualization stuff, like we're missing something obvious.
Rob Pike said in 2000 that systems research is irrelevant http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/ and I'd like to think that if we went back to simple tools like this we could make it somewhat relevant again.
The authors are right when they say that sshd and unix users are probably the most frature-full auth scheme in existence.