>>Hmmm, now I'm confused.  How does BSD Auth frobbing its environment
>>have anything to do with communicating data back to the parent process?
>>I'm obviously missing a piece of the puzzle ;-)

>One of the things you can send to stream #3, in addition to stuff like
>"authenticate", is "setenv name value".  This causes the library code to
>set the corresponding environment variable.

OK, cool.  That's all that's needed to handle my "template users" case.
Thanks
--sjg