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Posted to dev@apr.apache.org by Jeff Trawick <tr...@attglobal.net> on 2001/07/20 13:55:09 UTC

gonna yank apr_get_user_passwd()... scream if needed

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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