yeah I just did a perl
script which look like this
#!/usr/bin/perl
print getpwnam("ipnoc"),"\n";
and this was my output
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ipnocbb8mChsjCXn.c50005000/bin/bash
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everything looks right except for the colons missing between the fields..
is that cause of perl? or what?
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Gustav Meirinho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try this:
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> # perl -e 'print getpwnam "username",$/'
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> Ilo Lorusso escreveu:
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> if getpwnam() is a system library routine and not a command how would
> I go about performing those tests?
> please forgive my ignorance ..
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Wietse Venema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Postfix uses the standard getpwnam() system library routine to
> determine if a user exists.
> You should do your tests with getpwnam(), not with the
> getent command.
> Wietse
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