Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@linpro.no>]

Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <luca@linuxasylum.net> writes:

> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:20:32AM +0200, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> > you mean quiet versions of
> > 
> >   getent passwd $user >/dev/null
> >   getent group $group >/dev/null
> 
> Neither man page nor the getent --help were so useful, but i suppose
> it is not aware of PAM, for examples.

correct, since PAM isn't used for naming services, but authentication :-).

getent uses the libc API, so it will automatically honour the settings
in nsswitch.conf, and list/lookup in LDAP, NIS+ or whatever the system
is configured to use.


Kjetil T.


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