How to set getpwnam to read a file instead /etc/shadow file

ZAMO · 02-02-2009, 05:59 AM

I had setup a passwd file , and trying to retrive the username and passwd from it, using perl getpwnam function.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

   ($name, $passwd, $uid, $gid, $quota,
	$comment, $gcos, $dir, $shell) = getpwnam("myuser");
   print "Name = $name\n";
   print "Password = $passwd\n";

But it is trying to read the details from /etc/shadow file. How can I set the function getpwnam to read the request from my password file manually created.

Thanks

jschiwal · 02-02-2009, 08:25 AM

That isn't what the function does. It does the same thing as the C equivalent (and might be a wrapper), which uses the source that the system does. It might be /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow or NIS or ldap.