From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 3 12:09:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C8516A430 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:09:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D5143D45 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:09:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 31548 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2005 12:09:41 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Nov 2005 12:09:41 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 3B94D28441; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 07:09:40 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Dan Toganel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20051103100705.38816.qmail@web51302.mail.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 03 Nov 2005 07:09:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20051103100705.38816.qmail@web51302.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <448xw69bln.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD auth X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:09:42 -0000 Dan Toganel writes: > --- Igor Robul wrote: > > > 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. > > > Thanks for your interest. > Well, the problem with getpwent() is that i can't > retrive hash from master.passwd, > I can use it, only to parse passwd file. > But i also need to parse master.passwd to obtain > the hash and to crypt user password and obtain > the hash. > I need more specific help about those two. getpwent() *does* give you the encrypted password. It's the second field in the structure passed back.