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From: scotte@locus.com (Scott Eberline)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX V/386 Authentication database
Summary: call set_auth_parameters() first
Message-ID: <14893@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 20:49:27 GMT
References: <2291@kiwi.mpr.ca>
Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
Lines: 23

In article <2291@kiwi.mpr.ca> parker@zaphod.mpr.ca (Ross Parker) writes:
>The problem: Every time I try to run even the simplest piece of code
>that requires this library, I get the following message:
>
>     Authentication database use not initialized first

Try the following:

	main(argc, argv)
		int argc;
		char **argv;
	{
		struct pr_passwd  *pr;

		set_auth_parameters(argc, argv);
		pr = getprpwnam("parker");
	}

set_auth_parameters() must be called before any of the other routines in
identity.o in libprot.a, because they all check for it having been called.

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Scott D. Eberline		scotte@locus.com  or  uunet!lcc!scotte