13 Jul
2007
13 Jul
'07
5:14 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:13:08PM -0400, Stephen Harris enlightened us:
'getent passwd' should be portable across any account storage accessible through pam.
You said the magic word that makes things infinitely more complicated ("PAM") and that renders your answer incorrect. "getent" uses naming services (nsswitch.conf). PAM doesn't. An account visible via getent may not be valid on a box.
Yes, I should have said nss, not pam. Thanks for correcting that. That ought to teach me to answer questions late at night :-)
Matt
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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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