AUTHLIB(3)

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💖 AUTHLIB(3) — bestie edition 💖

okay so you found the manual page for the Courier Authentication Library (section 3, library functions, we love a 3), and ngl it's short but it's important. this is your girl S. Varshavchik's work and it's iconic. let's get into it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

courierauthconfig [[--ldflags] | [--cppflags]]

that's it. one command, two moods. pick one, bestie, not both — the | is giving "choose your fighter" 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the Courier authentication library is literally two libraries. not one. two. twins. soulmates. here's the vibe check on each:

  • -lcourierauth — authentication functions</p>, the main character ✨
  • -lcourierauthsasl — SASL authentication functions, the glamorous sibling 🦋

and then you've got courierauthconfig, which is basically your compiler-flag bestie who does the math so you don't have to:

  • courierauthconfig --cppflags — prints to standard output every compiler flag you need to actually reach the courierauth.h and courierauthsasl.h header files. no cap. it just drops them on stdout and you scoop them up 💖
  • courierauthconfig --ldflags — prints to standard output every compiler flag you need to link against the courierauth or courierauthsasl libraries. linking is scary, this makes it not scary 🎀
fr fr: both of these print to standard output. not to a file, not to your DMs. stdout. redirect it yourself, sis 🍓

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read these next, they're all connected, iykyk:

📝 NOTES 📝

the links, in order, with the placeholder in them left exactly as-is (yes really, that placeholder is part of the manpage, don't come for me 🌈):

  1. auth_meta(3) [set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/auth_meta.html
  2. auth_generic_meta(3) [set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/auth_generic.html
  3. auth_login_meta(3) [set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/auth_login.html
  4. auth_getuserinfo_meta(3) [set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/auth_getuserinfo.html
  5. auth_enumerate(3) [set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/auth_enumerate.html
  6. auth_mkhomedir(3) [set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/auth_mkhomedir.html
  7. auth_passwd(3) [set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/auth_passwd.html
  8. auth_sasl(3) [set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/auth_sasl.html

and that's the whole page, bestie 💀

this gorgeous little writeup was brought to you by S. Varshavchik, and it's stamped 01/11/2026 — that's the source/version and the date, so jot it down if you're citing it, okay? mwah, go compile something slay 💅✨💖

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