password API needed

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, 18 May 1998, Jean-Francois Micouleau wrote:

> On Tue, 19 May 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> > i have created pdb_init_(sam/smb) and pdb_sam_to_smb() and
> > pdb_smb_to_sam().  a more advanced form of pdb_smb_to_sam() - probably a
> > different function - will at a later date fill in the blanks, by reading
> > lp_xxx() default values, presumably.
> > 
> > you can now remove the local getldappwent() functions and create... i
> > know: i'll do it in passdb.c, ok?
> 
> ... yes.
> 
> I'm thinking of 2 more functions: pdb_check_sam() and pdb_check_smb()
> 
> checking the coherency of the struct, returning True or False only.

wossat, then?  what does "coherency" mean?