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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-04-28 21:02:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-04-28 21:02:58 +0000 |
| commit | 5d3a0a3bf50d83f7940354621313a4c238b18081 (patch) | |
| tree | c6a442d21617a6872ca0d537a6d77fdf32e1d441 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | c8aac49750e64fa298173e55691b4af8a48992fe (diff) | |
| download | perl-5d3a0a3bf50d83f7940354621313a4c238b18081.tar.gz | |
clarify note about shadow password support (from
gellyfish@gellyfish.com)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6010
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 17af812526..603d057dfb 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -1896,8 +1896,10 @@ by using the C<Config> module and the values C<d_pwquota>, C<d_pwage>, C<d_pwchange>, C<d_pwcomment>, and C<d_pwexpire>. Shadow password files are only supported if your vendor has implemented them in the intuitive fashion that calling the regular C library routines gets the -shadow versions if you're running under privilege. Those that -incorrectly implement a separate library call are not supported. +shadow versions if you're running under privilege or if there exists +the shadow(3) functions as found in System V ( this includes Solaris +and Linux.) Those systems which implement a proprietary shadow password +facility are unlikely to be supported. The $members value returned by I<getgr*()> is a space separated list of the login names of the members of the group. |