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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:50:59 -0400
From:      Joe Mays <jfmays@launchpad.win.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Alternate password files
Message-ID:  <3766A093.EEE348D@launchpad.win.net>

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There are times when it would be helpful to point some services that rely on the
system password file to an alternate password file. pwd_mkdb already has the
ability to output alternate password files to other directories, but not all
services let you identify an alternate system password file.

For any service which loads pwd.h, can you just define an alternate to pwd.h
that points to an alternate location and load that instead? What about services
which load pwd.h but also have calls to getpwnam() or getpwuid() (which
presumably have pwd.h compiled into them already)? Will these work?

And then there is the broader question of whether or not there is a better way
to do this than creating an alternate pwd.h.

Joe Mays


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