I'm in the process of writting a client/server application (purely in C) as a pseudo-frontend to administer various aspects of Debian 2.2 from remote locations over TCP/IP. What libraries do I need to look at in order to allow client authentication against /etc/passwd? Authentication is currently being performed through a simple text file housing a similar structure to /etc/passwd, but I would like to bypass this and piggy-back off of /etc/passwd to allow "true" UNIX authentication.
This is my first project developing under Linux, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Scott
