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Re: Call sequence 'getpwuid(getuid())' unexpectedly returns NULL

Subject: Re: Call sequence 'getpwuid(getuid())' unexpectedly returns NULL
From: "Justin C. Walker" <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:11:10 -0700


On Oct 31, 2008, at 07:00 , Sean Gates wrote:

Greetings from a new subscriber,
I’m having a problem on Macintosh OSX 10.4 & 10.5 involving user information lookup where the ‘getpwuid(getuid())’ call sequence starts unexpectedly returning NULL after an initial period of successful operation. On some systems the lookup failures start within than a day; on others, no failures have yet been observed.

[snip]

This is a wild guess, too early in the morning, but: do you rewind the password database before use? Check "man getpwuid" for details.

HTH

Justin

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