GDM Greeter

[Christopher L Tubbs II]

Bob Arendt wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 00:30 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 00:22 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 00:16 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 19:47 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You have not actually tried it, have you ? Your 10000 network 
>>>>>> users are
>>>>>> not going to show up in the user list, since we only populate the 
>>>>>> list
>>>>>> with local users.
>>>>> How are you distinguishing local users from any other kind?
>>>>>
>>>> Local users are the ones you get by reading /etc/passwd.
>>> So, you've got a separate reader of /etc/passwd independent of the
>>> normal glibc lookup for users in gdm?
>>>
>>
>> No need; glibc offers fgetpwent.
>>
> Doesn't fgetpwent provide all users via the methods listed for
> passwd in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?  F8's gdm is listing our whole
> company as listed by provided by NIS.  Has F9 changed this ?
> 

Actually, it's fgetpwent(FILE *stream)
You don't even need to pass it /etc/passwd... it could be any file 
stream formatted like /etc/passwd

getpwent(void) returns users from all system sources.

run "man fgetpwent" or "man getpwent" for more details.

Rainman

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