in reply to Re: Re: SCALAR output instead of attribute name.
in thread SCALAR output instead of attribute name.

Actually, after looking over some of the source code to Unix::PasswdFile and its parent Unix::Configfile, I wouldn't use it either. It's internals are awful.

I don't know why you need to be root to use it, though. In any case, there are other /etc/passwd parsing modules on CPAN.

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