Re: 2 unix hosts hold user info? (fwd)

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Wed, 28 Aug 1996 11:32:26 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, John G. Thompson wrote:

> There is a standard libc password function that can open a different
> password file. My sunos 4.1.4 has setpwfile(3v).

I don't seem to have that option on Linux. The closest looking thing I
have is fgetpwent, which allows you to read passwd structures from an
arbitrary open file.

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