[ILUG] User tool

[Jimmy O'Regan]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Liam Bedford wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:55:12PM +0000, Paul Kelly came forth with:
> > John McDonnell wrote:
> > 
> > >> What's wrong with /etc/passwd? That's got a complete list in a fixed 
> > >> machine-readable format, 
> > > 
> > > one caveat... if the machine is bound to an NIS host, it won't list the
> > > user accounts on the other machine, obviously enough...
> > 
> > True, true. And then you've got all those Other auth modules that PAM 
> > has been busy sprouting - LDAP and SMB for starters.
> > 
Ummmm.... I thought all those PAM modules required entries for the user
with something like a * in the password field?

> I guess you could always do something like:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> 
> main(void)
> {
> 	struct passwd *userpwentry;
> 
> 	setpwent();
> 
> 	while ( userpwentry = getpwent() ) {
> 		printf("Username %s\n", userpwentry->pw_name);
> 	}
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
Wouldn't awk -F: '{printf "Username %s\n", $1}'</etc/passwd do the same
thing with less typing?
That doesn't deal with the "non user" users on most systems though - on my
box, only 3/34 of the users in /etc/passwd are actual users.

> L.

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