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[John Abreau]

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Erik Price <eprice at ptc.com> writes:

> Because I didn't know it.  And I had never heard of a getpwent() 
> function, nor did I know that sysadmins often resorted to knowledge of C 
> structs and pointers in the course of their work.  (I don't run a Linux 
> box, I just have an account on a friend's, so this man page isn't 
> something I've ever seen before.  And the machine I *do* run is MacOS X, 
> which doesn't use an /etc/passwd file for user info.)
> 
> Arcaneness is just relative, I guess.

MacOS X uses NetInfo (inherited from NeXT) to manage its password 
database.
Applications still use getpwent() to retrieve the password data, just as 
they do on a Solaris box running NIS or NIS+, or a Linux box 
authenticating
to an OpenLDAP or Windows Active Directory server. Regardless of the 
underlying
authentication mechanism, getpwent() is the API for accessing it. 


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