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From: mamros@cavdog.enet.dec.com (Shawn Mamros)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: User Authentication Data Base, Ultrix 4.0
Keywords: passwd auth audcntl(2)
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Date: 4 Sep 90 12:30:17 GMT
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In article <417@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU>, edavis@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU (Ellen Davis)
asks:
|> How do I update the auth file from a C program ? 

The storeauthent(3) routine in the libauth.a library will create or modify
an entry in the /etc/auth database.  /usr/include/auth.h shows what the
structure of an authorization entry looks like.  Note that the a_password
field is encrypted with crypt16(3) and not crypt(3).

-Shawn Mamros
mamros@cavdog.enet.dec.com