[ILUG] User tool

Paul Kelly longword at esatclear.ie
Wed Dec 6 15:54:00 GMT 2000


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.

Paul.





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