Hey all,
I have a problem here that I don't really know how to go about.
Basically I want to be able to find a user in the /etc/passwd with only
a GID of 45 and a username of what I type the user name to be.
test5:x:503:503::/home/tunnel:/bin/bash
test:x:504:45:Test Account:/home/test:/bin/false
test4:x:506:505:test Account:/home/test4:/bin/false
test2:x:507:45:Test Account:/home/test2:/bin/false
daniel:x:508:45:Daniel Merritt:/home/daniel:/bin/false
As we all know the Unix /etc/passwd file looks like the above...
Now with the following I want to be able to only find the user name that
has a GID of 45 and make sure the username exists in /etc/passd in the
first place.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$user = "daneilson";
$file = '/etc/passwd';
open PASSSWD, "$file" or die "Cannot open $file for reading :$!";
#Store /etc/passwd as a file
while ( $lines = <PASSWD>) {
#split the /etc/passwd file at every colon and store it as an
array.
@lines = split (/:/, $lines);
}
#Now for the fun part...
#Here I need to be able to search through @lines for the username I
enter $lines[0]
#if $user is not found then I need to report an error
#else if $user is found then I need it to check that it has a GID of 45
and if it doesn't
#then I need to report another error.
Regards,
Dan
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
