On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:41:25AM -0800, Ben Yau wrote: > Also, I had never heard of getent either. I played with it a bit and half > expected to see getent as a shell script to grep instead of the binary file > which it is.
The reason why it's not a shell script to grep is that your password file etc. might not be in /etc/passwd. For instance, debian.org systems have a stub /etc/passwd file with system users, and the rest of the password file is in a database file distributed from a central LDAP server. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
