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From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Users in passwd/shadow
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:30:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070930023011.GA17059@bart.simpsons.bs.loc> (raw)

Hi,


I'm fetching the users from the files '/etc/passwd' and
'/etc/shadow'. (I use a simple Ruby script.)

  def users fn ; File.open fn do |f| f.map { |l| l[ /^[^:]*/] } end ; end

  pw = users "/etc/passwd"
  sh = users "/etc/shadow"

Now I detect there are users in passwd that don't have a
shadow entry and even shadowed users that don't appear in
passwd:

  > pw - sh
  => ["man", "smmsp", "portage", "cvs"]
  > sh - pw
  => ["games", "guest", "cvsd"]

Does this have any meaning or is it a bug?

Bertram


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             reply	other threads:[~2007-09-30  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-30  2:30 Bertram Scharpf [this message]
2007-10-01  1:15 ` [gentoo-user] Users in passwd/shadow Dan Farrell
2007-10-01  7:47   ` Bertram Scharpf
2007-10-01 21:37     ` Dan Farrell

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