6 Jun
2005
6 Jun
'05
13:56
Markus Natter <markus.natter@gmail.com> writes:
but is there also a passwd or other backend independent way? ( e.g. if you have users in passwd and LDAP, or NIS.. )
passwd is the database - it uses LDAP, NIS or whatever exactly the same way that ls would do...
What does "ls" do to? I think it uses a kind of an abstraction layer, as it seems to ask any underlieing authentication mechanism and nscd..
ls calls the getent_* functions of glibc - the getent binary uses the same getent_* functions, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126