[gentoo-user] Users in passwd/shadow

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,


I'm fetching the users from the files '/etc/passwd' and
'/etc/shadow'. (I use a simple Ruby script.)

  def users fn ; File.open fn do |f| f.map { |l| l[ /^[^:]*/] } end ; end

  pw = users "/etc/passwd"
  sh = users "/etc/shadow"

Now I detect there are users in passwd that don't have a
shadow entry and even shadowed users that don't appear in
passwd:

  > pw - sh
  => ["man", "smmsp", "portage", "cvs"]
  > sh - pw
  => ["games", "guest", "cvsd"]

Does this have any meaning or is it a bug?

Bertram


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Bertram Scharpf
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