[Scottish] Any C people out there?

[Jim]

You probably want 'getent'  - one flavour is available at 
http://www.domtools.com/unix/getent.shtml

There are other versions as well, but this came up first in a google search.

Provided NSS is set properly, this should deal with any location of the 
maps.

Jim


Colin McKinnon wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I find myself writing in C again - its a bit of a shock to the system after so 
>much PHP. I have come up against a problem to whit:
>
>I need to list all the groups a particular user is a member of. I know of 
>functions which will tell me who is in a prticular group, and functions which 
>will go through each group (although this is likely to be a rather expensive 
>way of solving problem - I'm not precluding it as a possibility, particularly 
>if I can cut & paste someone else's code ;). Can anyone point me in the right 
>direction? Know of any (GPL) program which does similar?
>
>(BTW I need something which is uses the nss as it needs to be able to make 
>sense of NIS and LDAP as well as files)
>
>TIA,
>
>Colin
>
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