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Date:      Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:49:43 +0300
From:      Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com>
To:        Dan Toganel <dantoganelus@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD auth
Message-ID:  <4368B5E7.4050309@speechpro.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051102095717.27512.qmail@web51310.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20051102095717.27512.qmail@web51310.mail.yahoo.com>

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Dan Toganel wrote:

>........................................
>I realize that in FreeBSD master.passwd is the
>replacement for linux shadow file.
>Is there a function to parse it?
>And how can i obtain the hash string?
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>  
>
It is not recommended directly use /etc/passwd, you your program need 
authentification, then use
PAM (man 3 pam). If you still want ignore PAM, you can use getpwent(3) 
family of functions.



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