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From: Adam Dyga <adeon@tlen.pl>
Subject: Re: HOME directory
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:26:19 +0200
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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....