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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!fub!unlisys!bb-data.de!news From: mib@bb-data.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Shadow password functions? Date: 25 Mar 1996 16:37:26 +0100 Organization: BB-DATA GmbH, Berlin, Germany Lines: 17 Sender: mib@laforge.ppe.bb-data.de Message-ID: <kiaenqhxjyh.fsf@laforge.ppe.bb-data.de> References: <4j5qf7$hja@cpmt.cyberport.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: laforge.ppe.bb-data.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: myke@cyberport.net's message of Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:56:13 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4j5qf7$hja@cpmt.cyberport.net> myke@cyberport.net (Mike Holling) writes: : : I'm working on porting poppassd to FreeBSD 2.1 so our users can change : their passwords with Eudora. With shadowed passwords, how do I verify : a user's password? The original code used the encrypted entry from : /etc/passwd, but of course that doesn't work with shadowed password : files. It should. The getpwent() routine copies in the encrypted password from the shadow files for you if you call it as root. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Martin Ibert, BB-DATA GmbH, Brunnenstraße 111, D-13355 Berlin >> e-mail <mib@bb-data.de>, phone +49-30-245-56582, fax +49-30-245-56577 << --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Disclaimer: My views do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. <<