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How to get encrypted user password

  • Subject: How to get encrypted user password
  • From: Roger Pau MonnĂ© <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:21:00 +0100
Hello, I'm implementing a very simple FTP client, and to do the login I would like to check against system users instead of using my own database, so that I can give the proper permissions to the newly created process that I've spawned with fork. What's the best way for doing this in C? I've read about the getpwnam function, that returns a struct passwd that has the field pw_passwd to compare against (using the crypt function), but this field only contains asterisks in Mac OS X and an x in Linux. Is there any common way to get the encrypted password of a user across POSIX systems?

Thanks, Roger
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