Re: [gentoo-embedded] getent is not present in uclibc

[paul k]

Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, paul k wrote:
>
>
>>Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello!
>>>
>>>getent is used by ebuild.sh to add user/group, but this is not
>>>present in uclibc, how and where should this be changed to something
>>>trivial (grep/echo)
>>>
>>
>>Im curious how you would use grep/echo to fetch user information from
>>distributed systems like nis/ldap/sql made available to getent() through
>>the NSS mechanism.
>
>
> uclibc supports only passwd/shadow, nothing else, not db,ldap,nis, no
> pluggable ala /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Should be easy to resolve then:
-------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
   passwd)
     cat /etc/passwd
     ;;
   group)
     cat /etc/group
     ;;
   *)
     echo  "Unknown database: $1"
     ;;
esac
-------------------------------
save as getent and put it in you path ,-)

	
greetings
  Paul

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