custom pam module to authenticate from a cdb file

[Ramprasad Padmanabhan]

I have username and md5 passwords in a cdb file. I need to use this for
authentication in postfix. I guess writing a custom pam module will be far
more efficient than using a pam_exec which will call an external program
every time.

I started with this sample
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pam/pam-sample-module.html

How can I have a persistent cdb handle , so that I need not open cdb file
again and aga
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