From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 15 11:53:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.win.net (ns1.win.net [204.215.209.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C67A14D19 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:53:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfmays@launchpad.win.net) Received: from launchpad.win.net (notebook01.win.net [216.24.1.215]) by ns1.win.net (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA11854 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:53:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3766A093.EEE348D@launchpad.win.net> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:50:59 -0400 From: Joe Mays X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Alternate password files Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message