03-03-2008
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Originally Posted by
fpmurphy
No, in general, a shell does not know whether a particular user exists or not. The operating system may know that information.
As for tilde expansion, here is the relevant section from ksh93 s+.
Thanks, this answers my question. Furthermore I was wrong, and you are right: the shell knows only for users already logged at least once on the system. I could test getpwnam() on a set of PCs running Linux with PAM authentication, it failed for PAM logins of users that never logged on the machine. Same occurred with tidlde expansion.
BTW, I understand that getpwnam() manpage is confusing : it claims that /etc/passwd is parsed. But seen the output of last(1), and the outcome of my test, I understand it is rather /var/run/wtmp...
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GRUB-FILE(1) General Commands Manual GRUB-FILE(1)
NAME
grub-file -- Check if FILE is of specified type.
SYNOPSIS
grub-file (--is-i386-xen-pae-domu | --is-x86_64-xen-domu |
--is-x86-xen-dom0 | --is-x86-multiboot |
--is-x86-multiboot2 | --is-arm-linux | --is-arm64-linux |
--is-ia64-linux | --is-mips-linux | --is-mipsel-linux |
--is-sparc64-linux | --is-powerpc-linux | --is-x86-linux |
--is-x86-linux32 | --is-x86-kfreebsd | --is-i386-kfreebsd |
--is-x86_64-kfreebsd | --is-x86-knetbsd |
--is-i386-knetbsd | --is-x86_64-knetbsd | --is-i386-efi |
--is-x86_64-efi | --is-ia64-efi | --is-arm64-efi |
--is-arm-efi | --is-hibernated-hiberfil | --is-x86_64-xnu |
--is-i386-xnu | --is-xnu-hibr | --is-x86-bios-bootsector)
FILE
DESCRIPTION
grub-file is used to check if FILE is of a specified type.
OPTIONS
--is-i386-xen-pae-domu
Check if FILE can be booted as i386 PAE Xen unprivileged guest kernel
--is-x86_64-xen-domu
Check if FILE can be booted as x86_64 Xen unprivileged guest kernel
--is-x86-xen-dom0
Check if FILE can be used as Xen x86 privileged guest kernel
--is-x86-multiboot
Check if FILE can be used as x86 multiboot kernel
--is-x86-multiboot2
Check if FILE can be used as x86 multiboot2 kernel
--is-arm-linux
Check if FILE is ARM Linux
--is-arm64-linux
Check if FILE is ARM64 Linux
--is-ia64-linux
Check if FILE is IA64 Linux
--is-mips-linux
Check if FILE is MIPS Linux
--is-mipsel-linux
Check if FILE is MIPSEL Linux
--is-sparc64-linux
Check if FILE is SPARC64 Linux
--is-powerpc-linux
Check if FILE is POWERPC Linux
--is-x86-linux
Check if FILE is x86 Linux
--is-x86-linux32
Check if FILE is x86 Linux supporting 32-bit protocol
--is-x86-kfreebsd
Check if FILE is x86 kFreeBSD
--is-i386-kfreebsd
Check if FILE is i386 kFreeBSD
--is-x86_64-kfreebsd
Check if FILE is x86_64 kFreeBSD
--is-x86-knetbsd
Check if FILE is x86 kNetBSD
--is-i386-knetbsd
Check if FILE is i386 kNetBSD
--is-x86_64-knetbsd
Check if FILE is x86_64 kNetBSD
--is-i386-efi
Check if FILE is i386 EFI file
--is-x86_64-efi
Check if FILE is x86_64 EFI file
--is-ia64-efi
Check if FILE is IA64 EFI file
--is-arm64-efi
Check if FILE is ARM64 EFI file
--is-arm-efi
Check if FILE is ARM EFI file
--is-hibernated-hiberfil
Check if FILE is hiberfil.sys in hibernated state
--is-x86_64-xnu
Check if FILE is x86_64 XNU (Mac OS X kernel)
--is-i386-xnu
Check if FILE is i386 XNU (Mac OS X kernel)
--is-xnu-hibr
Check if FILE is XNU (Mac OS X kernel) hibernated image
--is-x86-bios-bootsector
Check if FILE is BIOS bootsector
SEE ALSO
info grub
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