Cannot log onto domain

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Thu Dec 3 18:53:01 GMT 1998


Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> 
> the problem is that if i know the gid and i want to know what users are
> in that group, not just what groups are in /etc/group, you have to
> enumerate the password database to find out.
> 
> this is horrible.

It may be horrible, but it's POSIX, so at least it's
a *standard* horrible interface. Think happy thoughts,
you could be doing this in Win32 with the "API of the
month" club :-) :-).

Jeremy.

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