We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)
Each of these strings would previously rely on StringView's char const*
constructor overload, which would call __builtin_strlen on the string.
Since we now have operator ""sv, we can replace these with much simpler
versions. This opens the door to being able to remove
StringView(char const*).
No functional changes.
StringView was used where possible. Some utilities still use libc
functions which expect null-terminated strings, so String objects were
used there instead.
This matches the API of Account::authenticate. The only caller to this
API is the passwd utility, which already has the new password stored as
a SecretString.
Previously passwd would accept the first password input by the user. It
should ask the user to re-type the password to check for mismatches and
prevent typos in the password.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
Now that we've moved to atomic replacement of these files when altering
them, we don't need to keep them open for the lifetime of Core::Account
so just simplify this and close them when they are not needed.
Before this patch, we had a nasty race condition when changing a user's
password: there was a time window between truncating /etc/shadow and
writing out its new contents, where you could simply "su" to root
without using a password.
Instead of writing directly to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, we now
create temporary files in /etc and fill them with the new contents.
Those files are then atomically renamed to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
Sadly, fixing this race requires giving the passwd program a lot more
privileges. This is something we can and should improve upon. :^)
