Re: Password Verification..

1998-05-20 Thread Mihai Ibanescu
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Balan Sinniah wrote: I am writing a server program where it should be able to verify the user name and password. This program will be compile and run under the root directory. Any client who is trying to send the user id and password to the server should be veryfy

gdbm passwords

1998-05-20 Thread Mihai Ibanescu
Hello I am trying to buid support for another type of password databases (/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are _slow_ for 2k users). I am trying to put these in a gdbm file. Since I intend to write a thread-safe code (I think I know what this means, but I'm not very sure), I'd

Re: libcom_err.so

1998-05-20 Thread Glynn Clements
Marin D wrote: While looking at the memory address ranges reserved by libraries I found that there is a "common error code library" libcom_err.so I even have it installed but neither do I have info/docs for it nor could I find it on Sunsite or MIT. Any hints on the

Re: detecting a mouse click

1998-05-20 Thread Glynn Clements
Ibrahim Haddad wrote: I am drawing objects in a Motif drawing area using X libraries routinres such as drawRectangle/line/... Every object has 4 coordinates: x1,y1 and x2,y2. I need to be able to: Whenever I detect a mouse click, see what are its coordinates, and if it falls within the

bug in readelf-1.3 ???

1998-05-20 Thread Marin D
Hi! I'm trying to learn more about shared libs so according to the "The ELF object file by dissection" in Linux Journal (www.ssc.com/lj/issue13) I ve downloaded the readelf-1.3 utility. Well.. after folowing the exact example in the article I ended with a SIGSEGV. The bug was obvious [snip]

Re: gdbm passwords

1998-05-20 Thread Glynn Clements
Mihai Ibanescu wrote: I am trying to buid support for another type of password databases (/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are _slow_ for 2k users). I am trying to put these in a gdbm file. Since I intend to write a thread-safe code (I think I know what this means, but I'm not very sure),

Re: gdbm passwords

1998-05-20 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Mihai Ibanescu wrote: I am trying to buid support for another type of password databases (/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are _slow_ for 2k users). I am trying to put 1. Install glibc. 2. Add to /etc/nsswitch.conf in the password section the db option. 3. Write a plain