Martin Bochnig wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: > >Martin Bochnig wrote: > >>>Maybe getuserattr() or getauthattr() ? > > > >Plus getpublickey() > > > >Or don't those work with "files" as NS ?? > > > >*shrug* > > Exclusively from a shell script, no C?
Yes... > Can't you analyse the files in /etc directly then? No, because in the case that the matching entries in /etc/nsswitch.conf contain more than "files" you need nameservice-specific calls, one for YP, one for NIS, one for NIS+, one for LDAP etc. - and you would have to care about the lookup order and fallback behaviour if a nameservice is down etc. etc. ... ... that's why I was thinking to extend /usr/bin/getent to include these items if they are not available via other ways. > Which other tools can be expected to be present Just the shell... > Under which user or role will the script run (root) ? It should work with any user... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
