password API needed

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Thu May 21 13:46:36 GMT 1998


there are checks in password.c and smbpasswd.c to check that there exists
a unix account for the smb (nt) user with same name / same unix uid.

is this done through a single function, for consistency?  _should_ it?
should NIS+ be added ("passwd.org_dir") or is the standard getpwnam()
sufficient?

luke



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