site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com So this is implementation should work fine. -Jason From: Chuck Gagnon <chuck.gagnon@mac.com> It makes use of getpwent from libc, I would hope there is a backend bridge to DirectoryServices just like there is to NIS as such, perhaps I'm wrong there. My account which is not in /etc/passwd shows up in the list it. if the libc functions are to be abandon in favor of an API then all the BSD tools that make use of them (users, groups, who...) will need to be retooled. I'm not sure if this is the appropriate way to do this, but for ease and compatibility with the various flavors of unix I administer at work I wrote this code. It is under a BSD style license. Code is at: http://homepage.mac.com/gagnocg/downloads/listusers.zip Hum, I'm not sure it would work correctly on OS X in every case. AFAIK, the only safe way to have the correct list of users is to use the Directory Services API. But I can be wrong. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... There is a DSAgent in lookupd which bridges between POSIX style calls like getpwnam()/getpwent() and others and the Directory Services framework. It would not make much sense to drop support for these POSIX APIs since so much existing software uses them. On Mar 11, 2005, at 4:30 AM, Stephane Sudre wrote: On 9 mars 05, at 05:45, Chuck Gagnon wrote: It is basically a work alike to the SYSV command of the same name (man page included), with no arguments it lists all users in a sorted list showing username and comment (gecos) field. the to options are [ -l users ] to list specific users and or [ -g groups ] to list all users in the given group(s). Users are defined as ID's with a uid greater than 99. We have a lot of scripts that made use of this command on Solaris and HP-UX, and I couldn't find a similar command in the BSD world. The real difficult part with the Directory Services API IMHO is that the APIs are a bit strange from a spelling point of view (Bug filed on this matter and closed as duplicate) Happily, a SDK (not provided with the DevTools) exists at http://developer.apple.com/sdk/ and contains a really good sample code showing how to list users. My $0.02 This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com