Hi!
Recently I required access to Solaris shadow passwords for a client
project. I could not find an existing wrapper module, so I wrote one.
I would appreciate any comments, especially about:
- namespace
- availability of the shadow password API on other platforms
Here is the README:
Unix::ShadowPasswords
Description
Unix::ShadowPasswords Perl interface to the Unix shadow password API
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Copyright (c) 2002 Lupe Christoph. All rights reserved.
License
This software is covered by Perl's Artistic license, see the file
Artistic included in the distribution.
Download
You can download Unix::ShadowPasswords from my website at
http://free.prohosting.com/~lupe/Personal/Perl/Unix-ShadowPasswords/ .
Prerequisites
perl 5.005_03 While it is quite possible that this module will work
with earlier or later versions of perl, it has only been
tested with 5.005_03, 5.6.1, and 5.7.3.
shadow password C API
Solaris Tested with Solaris 2.6 and 8.
Solaris does not provide the
sgetspent() function.
Linux Tested with Debian GNU/Linux 3.0.
Linux provides the sgetspent()
function.
FreeBSD FreeBSD 4.5 does not have a shadow
password API.
Others If you try to install this module on
a different platform, please send me
feedback about it's shadow password
API. I need the value of the $^O
variable to identify the platform,
the output of "man getspnam" et al,
and the shadow.h include file.
I will then try to integrate support
for your platform. Of course, if you
do that yourself, patches are
welcome.
Bugs
Support for Threads is not implemented. It would use the getpw*_r
functions. Currently, the non-reentrant functions are always used.
Build/Installation
Standard build/installation supported by ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3)...
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
Author
Lupe Christoph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Webpage
Unix::ShadowPasswords has it's own webpage at
http://free.prohosting.com/~lupe/Personal/Perl/Unix-ShadowPasswords/ .
Thanks,
Lupe Christoph
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