On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 11:21, Jeff Mandel wrote: > 2) The wacky thing here is that \user actually returns successful with NIS. > jeff@host% getent passwd jeff > jeff:x:6789:6789::/export/home/jeff:/bin/ksh > jeff@host% getent passwd \jeff > jeff:x:6789:6789::/export/home/jeff:/bin/ksh
Not quite right. Your shell handled the "\j" and determined that it should have just been "j". As such, the getent command really saw "jeff", not "\jeff". The proper test would have been jeff@host% getent passwd \\jeff In this case your shell would have translated "\\jeff" into "\jeff" before sending it as an argument to getent. Mike
