I don't use a Mac but my understanding is that MacOS
X is basically just Mach with a BSD-style personality
called Darwin. As apparent confirmation of that,
the guy at the desk next to me (who's running MacOS X)
just now cat'd out the /etc/passwd file on his machine
at my request.
My /etc/passwd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And the machine I *do* run is MacOS X, which doesn't use an /etc/passwd
file for user info.)
Really? I thought OS X was BSD? Where is user info stored? Is
there an /etc/passwd file?
NeXT machines used a database called NetInfo to store information that
you'd no
> Because I didn't know it. And I had never heard of a getpwent()
> function, nor did I know that sysadmins often resorted to knowledge
> of C structs and pointers in the course of their work. (I don't run
> a Linux box, I just have an account on a friend's, so this man page
> isn't something I
In a message dated: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 17:12:16 EST
John Abreau said:
>MacOS X uses NetInfo (inherited from NeXT) to manage its password database.
A, with Jobs at the helm again, this doesn't surprise me a bit :)
Thanks for that tidbit John :)
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In a message dated: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:45:13 EST
Erik Price said:
>Because I didn't know it.
Okay, that's fair. And, I mistakenly applied a false definition to
the word arcane (thinking it meant little known). But according to
Merriam-Webster:
Arcane: known or knowable onl
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Erik Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Because I didn't know it. And I had never heard of a getpwent()
> function, nor did I know that sysadmins often resorted to knowledge of C
> structs and pointers i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious why you think that is arcane[1]? I was about to remark
something amazingly similar to mod, but got distracted and Derek beat
me to it[2] :)
That knowledge is indispensable to anyone who needs to debug user
environments (e.g. a sysadmin).
Are you saying
In a message dated: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:03:44 EST
Erik Price said:
>Derek Martin wrote:
>>
>> It is mildly surprising to me that it worked as effectively as it
>> did for you... The "proper" way to authoritatively find out a user's
>> home directory is to use the pw_dir element of a struct pass
Derek Martin wrote:
It is mildly surprising to me that it worked as effectively as it
did for you... The "proper" way to authoritatively find out a user's
home directory is to use the pw_dir element of a struct passwd which
has been filled out by a call to getpwent(), getpwuid() or getpwnam(),
I don't know anything about CygWin but (on an
obliquely related note) I can tell you that
changing your "home directory" has a few gotchas
on Linux because not every chunk of software
figures out how to find a given account's "home
directory" by the same method. For example,
I recently was worki
Bruce Dawson wrote:
How does one go about specifying an alternate home directory in Cygwin?
Right now, ~ == / and I'd rather it be /cygdrive/d/User\ Profiles/eprice
export HOME="/cygdrive/d/User Profiles/eprice"
The above establishes your home directory - there really is no "alternate home
On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 13:56:07 -0500
Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How does one go about specifying an alternate home directory in Cygwin?
> >Right now, ~ == / and I'd rather it be /cygdrive/d/User\ Profiles/eprice
>
> export HOME="/cygdrive/d/User Profiles/eprice"
>
> The above
On my Windows 2K Domain controller 'users&computers' settings I set my
windows account 'home' drive to be a samba share (it lives on a linux box)
and cygwin seems to use it. I think it is because I generated the cygwin
/etc/passwd with 'mkpasswd -d 'my_w2k_domain'. The sharename is
where the 'ho
> How does one go about specifying an alternate home directory in Cygwin?
>Right now, ~ == / and I'd rather it be /cygdrive/d/User\ Profiles/eprice
export HOME="/cygdrive/d/User Profiles/eprice"
The above establishes your home directory - there really is no "alternate home"
directory in Unix
How does one go about specifying an alternate home directory in Cygwin?
Right now, ~ == / and I'd rather it be /cygdrive/d/User\ Profiles/eprice
Thanks,
Erik
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