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See perldoc getpwent

That will avoid messing directly with /etc/passwd. It is portable across platforms and works with shadow and other variants.

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Re: Re: SCALAR output instead of attribute name.
by sschneid (Deacon) on Dec 18, 2003 at 18:33 UTC
    I wasn't looking for portability across platforms, I was looking for something to work on multiple remote hosts. Unless I rework the script into a client-server design, this still doesn't look like it'll work for me. As it stands (and for simplicity sake), I'm cating /etc/passwd over ssh, and parsing what is returned.

    -s.
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      With ssh or scp, you can send your portable script to your account on each host. Then when you want to poll hosts for their user accounts, ssh -2 user@host ./myscript.pl for each host in your polling script.

      No client/server involved but portability matters.

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