Re: Administrator password
Re: Administrator password
- Subject: Re: Administrator password
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:09:35 -0500
- Thread-topic: Administrator password
on 06/11/14 5:12, Quinn at email@hidden wrote:
> this topic's hardly kernel related...
Yes, it looks like we've wandered into the Apple-CDSA topic?
> Please do not use NetInfo for this sort of stuff...
OK, I get it.
> To validate a password programmatically, use the code from CryptNoMore.
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/CryptNoMore/index.html>
This is quite interesting code; I'm beginning to understand the relative
uses of OpenDirectory, PAM and Crypt. But chkpasswd seems to work fine in
my program. Is there a reason to not "just" call chkpasswd()?
> To [ check whether a user is a member of a group] programmatically, just use
<x-man-page://3/getgrgid> (or <x-man-page://3/getgrnam>).
Good! This is what I've done, using getgrnam.
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