Chad Perrin schreef: > Dr.Ruud: >> TIMTOWTDI. On the shell machines of my provider (FreeBSD) the "id" >> approach will work, and the "/etc/group" one won't. > > I don't think that has anything to do with it being FreeBSD.
That was and is also what I don't think. I only mentioned it because OP mentioned "This should work on any *nix system". > I'm typing this from a FreeBSD machine, and it works just fine. So some security layer is not implemented at your end. I don't know which is implemented here, there are several ways to do something similar. > Of course, if you're going to call out of the Perl script to the id > utility, you may as well skip the Perl script entirely and just enter > this at the shell prompt: > > id -Gn username That depends on what OP needs to do with the result. It could be part of a larger Perl script that is doing other stuff as well. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
