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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....

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-26 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ 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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-25 16:50 Luciano Moreira - ht
2005-04-28 12:28 HIToC

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