On Feb 14 11:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 14 10:02, Dave Kilroy wrote:
> > On 13/02/2014 21:48, David Stacey wrote:
> > >On 13/02/2014 19:36, m0viefreak wrote:
> > >>Grepping through /bin I found at least one other package
> > >>that makes use of /etc/passwd as a file directly (cvsbug), but
> > >>since I don't have everything installed I can only assume there
> > >>are more cygwin-packages and other programs someone might build
> > >>from source.
> > >
> > >My complete install is proving quite useful this week:
> > >
> > >    chere
> > >    xhere
> > >
> > >All of these reference /etc/passwd; some of the above also use
> > >/etc/group.
> > chere (with the -s passwd) reads etc/passwd and starts the default
> > shell of the current user from the explorer context menu. For now, I
> > will expect users wanting this functionality to keep
> > using/etc/passwd. If we grow a mechanism where the login shell can
> > be queried easily, I'll update chere to use that.
> 
> Indeed.  After the discussion yesterday I already realized that we will
> need some commandline tool to request passwd and group entries.
> 
> There is a function called getpw on Linux which allows to fetch a passwd
> entry in the form it has in /etc/passwd:
> 
>   http://linux.die.net/man/3/getpw

Gosh, please ignore this function.  It's old and dangerous.  Treat this
mail as if I never mentioned this function, ok?


Corinna

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