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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!x14.mi.uni-koeln.de!se From: se@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to access encoded passwords in the password database file Date: 15 Nov 1995 18:55:36 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 14 Message-ID: <48dd38$dt2@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <48aj41$otm@news.abq.bdm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: x14.mi.uni-koeln.de In article <48aj41$otm@news.abq.bdm.com>, rhughes2@bdm.com (Ralph Hughes) writes: |> I am trying to put together a PERL script that does user validation. |> However, since FreeBSD uses a password database file rather than /etc/passwd, |> I'm having some trouble. |> |> I'd really rather not undo the added layer of password security. Does perl's "getpwent" function not work for you ??? -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>