FreeBSD File System, please help

[Kirk Strauser]

On Tuesday 09 January 2007 2:34 am, you wrote:

> No idea.  There is no manpage for getent on my (6.1) system, so
> I don't know what it might do.

Maybe it's new (to FreeBSD) as per 6.2.  Anyway:

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SYNOPSIS
     getent database [key ...]

DESCRIPTION
     The getent program retrieves and displays entries from the 
administrative
     database specified by database, using the lookup order specified in
     nsswitch.conf(5).  The display format for a given database is as per 
the
     ``traditional'' file format for that database.

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Example:

$ getent passwd
root:*:0:0:System Administrator:/root:/usr/local/bin/zsh
rootcsh:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
daemon:*:1:1:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin
operator:*:2:5:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:*:3:7:Binaries Commands and Source:/:/usr/sbin/nologin

This has the huge benefit of fully supporting nsswitch, so the same command 
fetches *all* of your accounts, including those in NIS/YP and LDAP.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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