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RE: How do std unix apps authenticate etc/passwd or etc/shadow?

From OSX Unleashed:

"Linux and Unix users are probably used to seeing services defined in
/etc/services. Mac OSX stores these settings in NetInfo, but includes a
/etc/services file that is not queried unless the computer is booted in
single user mode."

Also:

"The NetInfo database is the directory /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb"

Hope that helps.

Davis



-----Original Message-----
From: email@hidden [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 7:35 AM
To: email@hidden
Subject: How do std unix apps authenticate etc/passwd or etc/shadow?


OSXers:

In standard unix (linix) many programs authenticate users using etc/passwd.
However users added to OSX server via server Admin or Users do NOT show up
in etc/passwd which I assume is used only for single user mode in OSX.

How do I tell standard unix packages what file to use to allow
authentication if its NOT etc/passwd? For example neomail needs etc/passwd
user authentication. We need a good webmail program for osx and neomail
seems to handle attachments well.

Thanks Tom
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