in reply to Password file and NIS check?

See getpwent and friends for reading the local user data. Watch out for system users like nobody and daemon.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re: Re: Password file and NIS check?
by tbo (Scribe) on Sep 09, 2002 at 20:12 UTC
    I don't think it works : getpwent will read the local files AND the nis map. (I've already had this problem with getgrent).