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Revision as of 04:37, 13 November 2012
getent
On systems that use ldap or other similar mechanims for maintaining /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, /etc/group etc. files instead of using 'cat /etc/passwd' we should use 'getent passwd to get passwd entries from local file as well as from other sources.
'getent' also supports following other arguments
- ahosts
- ahostsv4
- ahostsv6
- aliases
- ethers
- group
- gshadow
- hosts
- netgroup
- networks
- passwd
- protocols
- rpc
- services
- shadow