From: fuer@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE () Subject: Re: Dangers of password shadowing Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 11:23:00 GMT
Helmut Springer (HELMUT@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote:
:
: But wouldn't it be good to have the call getspwname() look up
: the password in /etc/shadow ? Then all programs using this need not
: to be changed to get the passwd from /etc/shadow and all other
: informations from /etc/passwd (we just ported popper to linux
: and had to do this)...
:
: ciao
: delta
Doesn't a compatibility library exist, where getpwname() gathers
the information from both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow ?