On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> wrote:
> Hmm - this is definitely odd - here's a trivial test program to show the
> problem:
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
> setpwent;
> while (my $name = getpwent) {
> print "Checking user $name\n";
> @junk = getpwnam($name);
> }
> endpwent;
>
Your test fails on F-9 as well. This works though (using python):
>>> import pwd
>>> names = pwd.getpwall()
>>> for name in names:
... print 'checking name ', name
...
checking name ('root', 'x', 0, 0, 'root', '/root', '/bin/bash')
checking name ('bin', 'x', 1, 1, 'bin', '/bin', '/sbin/nologin')
checking name ('daemon', 'x', 2, 2, 'daemon', '/sbin', '/sbin/nologin')
checking name ('adm', 'x', 3, 4, 'adm', '/var/adm', '/sbin/nologin')
... and so on.
Command-line utilities like 'getent' also work as expected. Sounds
like perl has an NSS problem to me.
- Niall
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