Greetings, PANEL Vincent (CIS/SIN)! > Don't know if this list is more appropriate than the Perl one but my > question is actually about porting a Perl script to Cygwin. I need to check > if the current user running the script belongs to a pre-defined group.
> Under *nix, I get the list of users belonging to the group and see if the > current user is in this list. How exactly you are doing this? (I hope you're not reading it from /etc/group, because that file may not exist at all, or contain exactly zero relevant information.) > Cygwin doesn't allow this way of working. Oh... ? > I found out by reading the thread "Why mkgroup does not list group members?" > on this mailing list (1 message on Mon, 13 May 2013 20:29:52, for instance). > I would like to use perl commands without launching external commands, if > possible. The way I've found until now is by using the output of the "id" > command but I was wondering if there was another way to do it. How is "id" > command working by the way ? You can check the sources of it, it's really a very simple tool. (It's coreutils, by the way. http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86/release/coreutils/ ) -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 14.03.2014, <02:12> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple