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I installed shadow password in my Linux machine, all my scripts using function getpwnam( ) now returned 'X' instead of 'encrypted' password. What do I do now? rewrite all of them? uninstall shadow? or some other functions support shadow? like getspnam( ) ?? Thanks.
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I installed shadow password in my Linux machine, all my scripts using function getpwnam( ) now returned 'X' instead of 'encrypted' password. What do I do now? rewrite all of them? uninstall shadow? or some other functions support shadow? like getspnam( ) ?? Thanks.

getpwname( ) for shadow support ??

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