[fpc-pascal]Password changing

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu Jun 6 23:06:00 CEST 2002


> 
> 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().

That is a Linuxism. *BSD always uses shadow passwds (stores them
in /etc/master.passwd), and these are callable using the usualy functions
(getpwent).





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