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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen/auth_subr.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/auth_subr.3 | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/auth_subr.3 b/lib/libc/gen/auth_subr.3 index 5c8ecf000e7..78d79af426c 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/auth_subr.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/auth_subr.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: auth_subr.3,v 1.5 2002/03/16 05:49:26 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: auth_subr.3,v 1.6 2002/03/16 19:20:05 millert Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997 Berkeley Software Design, Inc. All rights reserved. .\" @@ -480,7 +480,27 @@ sets the sessions state to Typically this is either .Li AUTH_OKAY or 0. +.Sh CAVEATS +The +.Fn auth_check_change +and +.Fn auth_check_expire +functions call +.Fn getpwnam +or +.Fn getpwuid , +overwriting the static storage used by the +.Xr getpwent 3 +family of routines. +The calling program must either make a local copy of the passwd struct +pointer via the +.Xr pw_dup 3 +function or use the +.Xr auth_setpwd 3 +function to copy the passwd struct into +.Fa as . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr authenticate 3 , .Xr login_cap 3 , +.Xr pw_dup 3 , .Xr login.conf 5 |