Re: (ASCEND) alternative to /etc/passwd

[james@wwnet.net]

On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, R. Marc wrote:

> 
> I looked through the code and it (livingston/Ascend radius) and it uses
> getpwnam which on Linux/BSD/Solaris at least is hardcoded to /etc/passwd
> (unless there is some header file somewhere I don't know about).
> 
> You could write your own version of getpwnam to take a second character
> string of a password file location and then replace getpwnam in the
> source code.
> 
> nsswitch.conf is for NIS/NIS+ which I don't think would do what you are
> trying to do here.  
> 

Actually I am working on a nss library for linux glibc that will query an
sql database instead of the password file.  nsswitch.conf can be used for
more than nis.  With linux you could also write a PAM module that would
query something besides /etc/passwd.

-James


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