I checked the version on my system against the one out on CPAN, and they are the same. And the permissions for both /etc/passwd and /etc/group are 444 (read permission for everyone)

UPDATE: After inserting some print statements into the module, I determined that the "Bus error (coredump)" is occuring when I get the user id with the getpwuid function. Any suggestions??

FINAL UPDATE: After going over the section of the Camel concerning the getpw* commmands, I noticed this little snippet:

      "On systems that support shadow passwords, you will
      have to be the super user to retrieve the actual
      password"
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I also tried using the User::pwent module, but with no success. So in the end, I had to settle for the following snippet to get the user name:

   my $cmd=`grep $uid /etc/passwd`;
   my ($name,$rest)=split /:/,$cmd;
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TStanley
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