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-.\" etc.txt - -*- Indented-Text -*- created at: Fri Jul 14 00:47:15 JST 1995
-
-** Etc(Module)
-
-The module to retrieve information under /etc directory. Available
-only on UNIX platforms. All operations defined in this module are
-module functions, so that you can include Etc module into your class.
-
-Module Function:
-
- getlogin
-
- returns login name of the user. It this fails, try getpwuid().
-
- getpwnam(name)
-
- searches in /etc/passwd file (or equivalent database), and
- returns password entry for the user. The return value is an
- passwd structure, which has members described below.
-
- struct passwd
- name # user name(string)
- passwd # encrypted password(string)
- uid # user ID(integer)
- gid # group ID(integer)
- gecos # gecos field(string)
- dir # home directory(string)
- shell # login shell(string)
- # members below are optional
- change # password change time(integer)
- quota # quota value(integer)
- age # password age(integer)
- class # user access class(string)
- comment # comment(string)
- expire # account expiration time(integer)
- end
-
- See getpwnam(3) for detail.
-
- getpwuid([uid])
-
- returns passwd entry for the specified user id. If uid is
- ommitted, use the value from getuid(). See getpwuid(3) for
- detail.
-
- getgrgid(gid)
-
- searches in /etc/group file (or equivalent database), and
- returns group entry for the group id. The return value is an
- group structure, which has members described below.
-
- struct group
- name # group name(string)
- passwd # group password(string)
- gid # group ID(integer)
- mem # array of the group member names
- end
-
- See getgrgid(3) for detail.
-
- getgrnam(name)
-
- returns the group entry for the specified name. The return
- value is the group structure. See getgrnam(3) for detail.
-
- group
-
- iterates over all group entries.
-
- passwd
-
- iterates over all passwd entries.