Subject: Re: getpwuid
From: [email-masked] (aspa)

4 May 1997 07:35:56 -0700
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On Sat, 3 May 1997, Ben Elliston wrote:

> Does anyone know what the state of the implementation of getpwuid is?  Is
> it possible to have the structure filled in by this function completed
> using details from the NT user database?
> 
> I have some code which seems to be getting (null) when doing:
> 
> 	getpwuid(geteuid())
> 
> Any ideas?

i recall successfully using getpwuid() in b17.1. for the above example to
work, you have to have a /etc/passwd entry for the euid running the code.

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		aspa

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