Re: [Chicken-hackers] user-information update for OpenBSD

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> Yeah, but what if you're writing, say, a login manager or ssh replacement
> in Scheme?  Then you need to be able to crypt & compare the password and
> preferably use a portable API to get the crypted password.

Then make such a portable API and don't try to use getpasswd() at all.
Most modern systems have a service of some kind to handle login anyway.

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