saslauthd getpwent

[John Alton Tamplin]

RJ45 wrote:

>hello I noticed that getpwent method of saslauthd fails on solaris, it
>works with pam or shadow but not with getpwent. IS it normal for Solaris 9
>? or is there some trick to make it work?
>
During the transition here, I was running saslauthd -a getpwent because 
it was easier to hack the backdoor password into the getpwent method 
rather than pam, and it worked just fine feeding from NIS+ on Solaris 9. 
 Is you name service switch setup properly?  Are you running NIS, or are 
you using local shadow files?

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John A. Tamplin                               Unix System Administrator
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