Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy
Previously Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> 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.
They have no business being aware of PAM. PAM is only used for
authentication, not for user information. It is perfectly legal to
authenticate a user with PAM even if that user does not really exist
on the system as a traditional UNIX account. It is just as legal to
have a UNIX account PAM knows nothing about.
I suspect you are confusing PAM and NSS here: NSS (Name Service Switch)
is a mechanism that allows you to have user information in different
places (like local files, NIS, LDAP, etc.)
Wichert.
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