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  says:

COMPATIBILITY
     The historic function setpwfile(3),  which allowed the specification of
     alternative password databases, has been deprecated and is no longer
     available.

  is there a deep technical reason why this is the case? Or does this
just relate to the use of /etc/master.passwd, and the DB versions of the
password files?
  I have a need to create Unix-password-like files for virtual email
servers, and was just going to hack these libc routines to do pick
a different directory than /etc for their stuff.

  [does anyone have any opinion about the value of pursuing PAM-style
authentication modules for NetBSD? I know there is s/key in /bin/login
already...]

   :!mcr!:            |  Network security consulting and 
   Michael Richardson |      contract programming
 WWW: mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca. PGP key available.

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