> -----Original Message----- > From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:51 > To: SpamAssassin > Subject: Re: /etc/shadow access from SA > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:01:31PM -0600, Dallas L. Engelken wrote: > > Justin, Are you positive? I don't see getpwnam or getpwuid > accessing > > /etc/shadow on linux. It hits /etc/passwd for the getpw* calls. > > > > # cat test.pl > > my $uid = getpwnam('root'); > > my $name = getpwuid(0); > > print "name=$name uid=$uid\n"; > > That's because you're not asking for information found in shadow... :) > > > # strace perl test.pl 2>&1 | grep passwd > > open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 > > open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 > > Here's my version: > > # cat t > my @info = getpwnam("root"); > my @info2 = getpwuid(0); >
Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification :) D
