A few people sent me replies and this was the briefest and to the point, which
came from Randy Hayman, haymanr_at_icefog.sois.alaska.edu
- man getprpwent(3)
- use bigcrypt() which has the same arguments as crypt(3).
- Use the first two characters of fd_encrypt as the seed for bigcrypt.
compare returned string from bigcrypt to fd_encrypt.
- fd_encrypt is returned from your call to getprpwent.
- if they match, all is good and validated.
The above assumes you haven't altered (from default) the encryption methods
on your system.
Randy M. Hayman
haymanr_at_icefog.alaska.edu
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