On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:05:00 -0600 
 "John A. Maier" <johnam@kemper.org> wrote:

 > I found:
 > getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, setpassent, setpwent, endpwent
 > 
 > Which are great for getting info from the passwd files, but are there any   
 > API for setting/changing the data in a passwd database?
 > 
 > Does the 2nd step require me to code for file manipulation?

man pw_init

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>