diff -ur qpopper3.1.2/popper/pop_apop.c qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/pop_apop.c
--- qpopper3.1.2/popper/pop_apop.c	Tue Oct 10 17:34:37 2000
+++ qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/pop_apop.c	Tue Dec 12 13:05:49 2000
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
     }
 #endif /* NONAUTHFILE */
 
-    pw = getpwnam ( p->user );
+    pw = p->pw;
     if ( ( pw == NULL) || (  pw->pw_passwd == NULL )
                        || ( *pw->pw_passwd == '\0' ) ) {
         return ( pop_auth_fail ( p, POP_FAILURE, HERE, ERRMSG_PW, p->user ) );
diff -ur qpopper3.1.2/popper/pop_auth.c qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/pop_auth.c
--- qpopper3.1.2/popper/pop_auth.c	Mon Sep 11 23:12:57 2000
+++ qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/pop_auth.c	Tue Dec 12 13:04:10 2000
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@
     /* Blow away everyone who UNIX knows nothing about */
 
   if ( *p->authid &&
-        (((pw = getpwnam (p->user)) == NULL) || (pw->pw_passwd == NULL)
+        (((pw = p->pw)) == NULL) || (pw->pw_passwd == NULL)
           || (*pw->pw_passwd == '\0')) )
   {
 #ifdef NOHINT
diff -ur qpopper3.1.2/popper/pop_pass.c qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/pop_pass.c
--- qpopper3.1.2/popper/pop_pass.c	Mon Nov 13 00:18:07 2000
+++ qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/pop_pass.c	Tue Dec 12 14:48:55 2000
@@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@
     /*  
      * Look for the user in the password file 
      */
-    pwp = getpwnam ( p->user );
+    pwp = p->pw;
     if ( pwp == NULL ) {
         DEBUG_LOG1 ( p, "User %.128s not in passwd file",
                      p->user );
diff -ur qpopper3.1.2/popper/pop_rpop.c qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/pop_rpop.c
--- qpopper3.1.2/popper/pop_rpop.c	Fri Aug 18 22:59:10 2000
+++ qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/pop_rpop.c	Tue Dec 12 13:03:35 2000
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
     }
 #endif
 
-    pw = getpwnam ( p->user );
+    pw = p->pw;
     if ( pw == NULL )  {  /* "Can't happen" */
         DEBUG_LOG1 ( p, "getpwnam returned NULL for user %s", p->user );
         return ( pop_msg ( p, POP_FAILURE, HERE,
diff -ur qpopper3.1.2/popper/pop_user.c qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/pop_user.c
--- qpopper3.1.2/popper/pop_user.c	Wed Sep 20 00:03:24 2000
+++ qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/pop_user.c	Tue Dec 12 13:01:27 2000
@@ -181,6 +181,11 @@
     p->user [ user_name_len ] = 0;
     strcpy ( p->authid, p->user );  /* userid is also authentication id */
 
+    /* cache passwd struct for use later, this memory gets freed at the end of the session */
+    p->pw = getpwnam ( p->user );
+    
+
+
 #ifdef SCRAM_ONLY
     return ( pop_auth_fail ( p, POP_FAILURE, HERE, 
                              "[AUTH] You must use SCRAM-MD5 authentication "
@@ -205,7 +210,8 @@
          * access Qpopper with a cleartext password.
          */
 
-        pw = getpwnam ( p->user );
+        pw = p->pw;
+
         if ( ( pw != NULL ) &&
 #ifdef GDBM
              ( ( db = gdbm_open ( AUTHDB, 512, GDBM_READER, 0, 0 ) ) != NULL )
@@ -335,8 +341,7 @@
         if ( p->style != NULL )
             *p->style++ = '\0';
         if ( p->class == NULL ) {
-                struct passwd *pwd = getpwnam ( p->user );
-                p->class = login_getclass ( pwd ? pwd->pw_class : NULL );
+                p->class = login_getclass ( p->pw ? p->pw->pw_class : NULL );
         }
         if ( p->kerberos ) {
             p->style = login_getstyle ( p->class, "kerberos", "auth-popper" );
diff -ur qpopper3.1.2/popper/popper.c qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/popper.c
--- qpopper3.1.2/popper/popper.c	Mon Aug 21 23:58:47 2000
+++ qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/popper.c	Tue Dec 12 15:12:58 2000
@@ -619,6 +619,11 @@
     if ( p->xmitting ) 
         pop_xmit_clean ( p );
 
+    if (p->pw)
+    {
+        free(p->pw);
+    }
+
 #ifndef NOUPDATEONABORT
     if ( (p->CurrentState != auth1) && (p->CurrentState != auth2)
                                     && !pop_updt(p) )
diff -ur qpopper3.1.2/popper/popper.h qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/popper.h
--- qpopper3.1.2/popper/popper.h	Fri Sep 29 23:39:53 2000
+++ qpopper3.1.2-my/popper/popper.h	Tue Dec 12 14:48:29 2000
@@ -528,6 +528,8 @@
 #endif /* DRAC_AUTH */
 
     BOOL                user_opts;              /* process ~/.qpopper-options ? */
+
+    struct passwd  *    pw;                    /* Details retrieve from /etc/passwd (or elsewhere...) */
 };
 
 typedef enum { HANGUP,  /* SIGHUP */