Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:58:18 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Philip Reynolds <phil@rfc-networks.ie> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setpassent Message-ID: <20020604135817.A62978@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020604121242.F22893@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>; from phil@rfc-networks.ie on Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 12:12:42PM %2B0100 References: <20020604121242.F22893@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 12:12:42PM +0100, Philip Reynolds wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> obviously there is a reason for setpassent() being deprecated I'm
> wondering what is the best thing to do to port an application from
> Linux to FreeBSD that uses the fgetpwent() function that allows you
> to specify an alternate password database to read from.
>=20
> What other alternatives to setpassent() exist? Curiosity also brings
> me to ask why setpassent() is deprecated (which may answer the
> former question as well).
Where did you read that setpassent() is deprecated?
The manpage only says this:
COMPATIBILITY
The historic function setpwfile(3), which allowed the specification of
alternate password databases, has been deprecated and is no longer ava=
il-
able.
Kris
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