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why would you search for home directories for all of those users. Most of them don't have home directories as they are designed for daemons and whatnot. All users with home directories (other than root) should be under /home so you should just write the script to analyze those directories (probably skip ftp directory, etc if it is in there).
why would you search for home directories for all of those users. Most of them don't have home directories as they are designed for daemons and whatnot. All users with home directories (other than root) should be under /home so you should just write the script to analyze those directories (probably skip ftp directory, etc if it is in there).
because i have to use getpwent() function for getting the users.
and it gets all this users..?
because i have to use getpwent() function for getting the users.
and it gets all this users..?
Why do you have to use this function? If all the users (other than root) have their home directories under /home then all you have to do is du those directories. You don't need to bother using some other method to generate a list of users. You can get all the users names you are interested in (ones with home directories) by simply listing the directories in /home.
Am I misunderstanding what you are trying to accomplish?
Why do you have to use this function? If all the users (other than root) have their home directories under /home then all you have to do is du those directories. You don't need to bother using some other method to generate a list of users. You can get all the users names you are interested in (ones with home directories) by simply listing the directories in /home.
Am I misunderstanding what you are trying to accomplish?
it's an experiment for my school and there should be 2 c programs that will be called from bash script. one of these c programs use getpwnam other one uses getpwent. our teacher wants those :/ i cant decide
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