[Fedora-packaging] Possible UsersAndGroupsDraft

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 09:20 -0500, 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
> > 
> > > in /etc/passwd, /etc/group, as that would better cover network user
> > > conflicts.
> > 
> > If you don't already do it, you should _really_ do it and quickly.
> > Checking /etc/passwd directly today is not acceptable IMO, NSS has been
> > introduced exactly to decouple user querying from knowledge of the
> > underlying db and mechanisms used.
> 
> 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 spot
spot:*:1234:4567:Tom (spot) Callaway:/home/spot:/bin/bash


Simo.