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# 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 DECNIS module
- 4.5 RADIUS module

## 5. Proposals/unresolved issues

## 6. References

## 7. Acknowledgments

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