checkpassword and Mac OS X

"Russell P. Sutherland" <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:00:28 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.checkpassword
Organization Quist Consulting
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The most recent version of Mac OS X (10.3, Panther)  has a feature that
disallows the standard getpwnam function call to return the encrypted
version of the persons password.

I've got a clumsy work around for this problem that uses
the Mac OS X specific authentication libraries.

I tried using the checkpassword-pam tool hoping
that pam would hide all this abstraction with out
success.

Has any one else experienced this non-portability
feature with Mac OS X?

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