From: Adam Dyga <adeon@tlen.pl>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HOME directory
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:26:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <426E255B.3050805@tlen.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a00c8d505042511529bd72c8@mail.gmail.com>
Steve Graegert wrote:
>On 4/25/05, Adam Dyga <adeon@tlen.pl> wrote:
>
>
>>>All SUSv2/3 compliant systems know the system call getpwnam() to
>>>obtain information about a given user by querying the passwd database.
>>>The following (untested) code snippet demonstrates its usage. Hope
>>>this is what you're lookin' for.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Note that for security reasons this way much better.
>>
>>
>Relying on the shell environment is
>usually a bad idea since it can be manipulated and tweaked in many
>different ways.
>
That's exactly what I meant ;)
Cheers
AD
PS: Sorry, my previous reply should have gone to the group....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-26 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-25 16:27 HOME directory HIToC
[not found] ` <426D1DC8.2080900@hq.ntsp.nec.co.jp>
2005-04-25 16:42 ` Ron Michael Khu
2005-04-25 16:46 ` Ron Michael Khu
2005-04-25 16:43 ` Benjamin Machuletz
2005-04-25 16:59 ` Richard Nairn
2005-04-25 17:05 ` Steve Graegert
[not found] ` <426D38D3.5060901@tlen.pl>
[not found] ` <6a00c8d505042511529bd72c8@mail.gmail.com>
2005-04-26 11:26 ` Adam Dyga [this message]
2005-04-25 17:06 ` Glynn Clements
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2005-04-28 12:28 HIToC
2005-04-25 16:50 Luciano Moreira - ht
2002-06-03 9:56 home directory Кузнецова Нина
2002-06-03 10:32 ` Nicolas Costes
[not found] ` <3CFC76FF.F41AB199@ns.kinetics.nsc.ru>
2002-06-04 9:25 ` Nicolas Costes
2002-06-04 12:16 ` Milan P. Stanic
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