password API needed

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, 18 May 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> Luke,
> 
> 	Just letting you know that the changes you have
> made to add LDAP & NIS need to be modularized to go through
> a function pointer table. All these #ifdef LDAP etc. stuff
> makes it difficult to read the code, check out how the
> different shared memory systems are selected in locking.c
> using the share_ops structure - we need the same for the
> different password databases.

oh yehhhhh.  _good_ idea.