On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 02:32 , david wrote:
[..]
> from Brian's code, it seems to me that he's running a windows machine so
> the
> getpw* stuff you refers to might not be available for him. again, i seldom
> develop anything in windows, so i can't be sure.
[..]
given that I do not have a 'passwd' entry local on
the OSX box I am working on - i have a level of
confidence that Brian could test it, and see if
he can get at least his own from the domain controller
and/or NIS server ...
I like your NDBM idea - stylish, chic - but a minor
nit to pick with you
a) use DB_FILE; is not required
or were you being polite about it and vectoring
back to the traditional and meant to imply reseting
the cache size, etc, etc, etc....
b) there is the ikky with the 'tie' that could
be having issues with the lack of parens
tie (%hash,"NDBM_File","auth",O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0640) ||
die "problem with tie: $! \n";
actually works on both sides - and there is really no hard
core reason to make it executable...
Granted anyone who can 'read' the perl executable will
be able to 'read' the file just as easily...
but that's a part of 'how safe' and how secure....
ciao
drieux
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