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Re^2: Determining real name from login name

by Fletch (Bishop)
on Nov 30, 2004 at 14:17 UTC ( [id://411189]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Determining real name from login name
in thread Determining real name from login name

And then you move to a system using NIS/YP or LDAP and wonder why your script breaks . . . . getpwuid() and friends work just fine and are core; no need for an extra module.

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