On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 10:10 -0500, Brian E. Seppanen wrote: > Does someone know of an easier way of testing > for the existence of a user that wouldn't require a call to getent? > Just wondering if there is a better solution out there.
Don't know if this is better, but it is quieter: you can also 'grep -q' for the username in /etc/passwd. Only works for locally maintained account info of course, where getent will use NIS or LDAP or whatever else you have configured. -Ed _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org http://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
