On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:17:21PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 10:44 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 10:14 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 08:44 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> >>> A possible improvement I could see would be to change the tool to ask
> >>> pam if the user exists, as opposed to simply looking
> >> I guess you mean NSS
> > So... since I know pam but not NSS, is there a way to ask that question
> > (does a user/group exist) on the commandline with existing NSS tools?
> # getent passwd | cut -d: -f1 | grep -c <user>
> # getent group | cut -d: -f1 | grep -c <group>
getent passwd <user> >/dev/null
getent group <group> >/dev/null
`id' feeds of nss just like getent. Ville's draft already was nss
safe. ...
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