On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:18:21PM -0700, joe ritter wrote: > Hello, > I would like to not use /etc/passwd for > authentication. I have been reading the docs and I see > the in the prescence of /etc/cram-md5 5ha5 this file > will be used instead. I am imagining that this method > does not scale well. We need to be able to be able to
The usual trick here is to create your own library function set, which supplies getpwnam() API, and inside does all things your particular environment wants. Then link that statically to your instance of binaries. Platform depending, also shared library dynamic preloading can do the same thing -- and without hazzles of static library linkage. There is a big problem in UNIX API of getpwnam() -- its error handling is challenging. It appears, when you want to absolutely separate situations of database access problem, and success of access, but lack of user entry. Both yield NULL, one is where you want to report (perhaps not in IMAP, but in mail delivery) "retry this", another: "no such user". .... -- /Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
