User Authentication Data Base, Ultrix 4.0

[Shawn Mamros]

In article <417 at ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU>, edavis at 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 at cavdog.enet.dec.com