fakepw auth.c question

[Ben Lindstrom]

It provides a way of creating a fake passwd entry if the authentication
users does not exist.  The reason is wrapped around the fact that without
doing this you can guess  existing vs nonexisting user accounts based on
how much time it takes to reply "bad password".

- Ben

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Jamaal Speights wrote:

>
>    this is at the bottom of auth.c.  What is it?
>
>    struct passwd *
>    fakepw(void)
>    {
>    static struct passwd fake;
>    memset(&fake, 0, sizeof(fake));
>    fake.pw_name = "NOUSER";
>    fake.pw_passwd =
>        "$2a$06$r3.juUaHZDlIbQaO2dS9FuYxL1W9M81R1Tc92PoSNmzvpEqLkLGrK";
>    fake.pw_gecos = "NOUSER";
>    fake.pw_uid = -1;
>    fake.pw_gid = -1;
>    fake.pw_class = "";
>    fake.pw_dir = "/nonexist";
>    fake.pw_shell = "/nonexist";
>    return (&fake);
>    }
>
>
>    Default branch: MAIN
>      _________________________________________________________________
>
>    Revision [1]1.51 / ([2]download) - [3]annotate - [4][select for diffs]
>    , Fri Nov 21 11:57:02 2003 UTC (3 weeks, 1 day ago) by djm
>    Branch: [5]MAIN
>    CVS Tags: [6]HEAD
>    Changes since 1.50: +2 -2 lines
>    Diff to previous [7]1.50 ([8]colored)
>      _________________________________________________________________
>
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> References
>
>    1. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth.c?rev=1.51&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>    2. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth.c?rev=1.51&content-type=text/plain
>    3. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth.c?annotate=1.51
>    4. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth.c?r1=1.51
>    5. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth.c?only_with_tag=MAIN
>    6. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth.c?only_with_tag=HEAD
>    7. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth.c.diff?r1=1.50&r2=1.51
>    8. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth.c.diff?r1=1.50&r2=1.51&f=h
>    9. http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2734??PS=
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