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Re: update on Debian/FreeBSD



On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:49:07PM -0400, utsl@quic.net wrote:
> *  shadow.h: FreeBSD doesn't seem to implement the standard shadow password
>    functions in it's libc. (No getspnam and friends.) So far, I've learned that
>    this breaks base-passwd.
shadow password stuff is handled by the usual getpwnam & co functions.
-> no need for extra handling unshadowed and shadowed passwd files.
Joerg Wunsch told me so when I tried to port the predecessor of my login
program francine[0] to FreeBSD.

Regards,
Andreas Krennmair
[0]: http://francine.sourceforge.net/
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