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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to access encoded passwords in the password database file Date: 15 Nov 1995 23:22:49 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <48dp7p$9ki@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <48aj41$otm@news.abq.bdm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Ralph Hughes <rhughes2@bdm.com> wrote: >I am trying to put together a PERL script that does user validation. >However, since FreeBSD uses a password database file rather than /etc/passwd, >I'm having some trouble. Use a Perl script that's setuid root. Unlike SysX, 4.4BSD hasn't mangled the getpw*() API, so a call to those functions from a privileged process yields the expected result. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)