Re: update on Debian/FreeBSD

["Nathan Hawkins" <utsl@quic.net>]

I'm aware FreeBSD has a different way to handle shadow passwords. The 
difficulty is that update-passwd doesn't know that. It thinks it needs some 
of those functions to work. Quite a few debian packages rely on 
update-passwd to be able to add users and groups, so I'm probably going to 
need to look at rewriting it, or at least adding some #ifdef's.

A bigger problem is that I don't know how many other things are broken, like 
adduser, passwd, login, etc. And after I get this working, I get to play 
with PAM... 

Andreas Krennmair writes: 

> 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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