This function doesn't work on many/most current Unix boxes (think
"shadow") and the concept is not portable to many other platforms
either.
You just can't count on retrieving the password for a user, and even
when you can you can't count on the encryption method (if any).
I thought this was going to be replaced by something which was
provided a user id and password and attempted to valid it. At least
that is more generally available.
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