The PWDB Library Guide
Cristian Gafton and Andrew G. Morgan
DRAFT v0.54 1996/12/4
This manual documents the
Password database
library (
libpwdb
). This is a library implementing a generic user information database. It was specifically designed to satisfy the needs of
Linux-PAM
.
1.
Introduction
1.1 Motivation
2.
Configuration
2.1 The configuration file
3.
Implementation
3.1 The core (public) functions
3.2 Functions supplied by database modules
3.3 Standard entries in pwdb structures
3.4 Helper functions
3.5 Typical usage
4.
Supported modules
4.1 UNIX module
4.2 Shadow module
4.3 NIS module
4.4 RADIUS module
5.
Proposals/unresolved issues
6.
References
7.
Acknowledgments