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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Philip Reynolds <phil@rfc-networks.ie>
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Subject: Re: setpassent
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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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