[fpc-pascal]Password changing
Michael Van Canneyt
michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be
Thu Jun 6 22:44:44 CEST 2002
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Helio Cavichiolo Jr wrote:
> Thank you Vassilis, but I thought fpc had a function to do that.
> I'm currently using...
>
> shell('echo "',user,':',pass,'" | chpasswd');
>
> ...but would prefer something system independent.
The correct way is to use get(s)pwnam()/put(s)pwnam() from the libc library.
TPasswordRecord = record
pw_name : pchar;
pw_passwd : pchar;
pw_uid : pchar;
pw_gid : pchar;
pw_gecos : pchar;
pw_dir : pchar;
pw_shell : pchar;
end;
PPasswordRecord = ^TPasswordRecord;
getpwnam (UserName : Pchar) : PPasswordRecord;cdecl;external 'c' name getpwnam;
and similar for putpwnam.
Do a man getpwent and you should get all possible info.
Take care that systems with shadow passwords use getspwnam().
Michael.
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