04-27-2010
Determining if user is local-user in /etc/passwd or LDAP user
Besides doing some shell-script which loops through /etc/passwd, I was wondering if there was some command that would tell me, like an enhanced version of getent.
The Operating system is Solaris 10 (recent-ish revision) using Sun DS for LDAP.
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
getent
GETENT(1) BSD General Commands Manual GETENT(1)
NAME
getent -- get entries from administrative database
SYNOPSIS
getent database [key ...]
DESCRIPTION
The getent utility 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.
The database argument may be one of:
Database Display format
ethers address name
group group:passwd:gid:[member[,member]...]
hosts address name [alias ...]
networks name network [alias ...]
passwd user:passwd:uid:gid:gecos:home_dir:shell
protocols name protocol [alias ...]
rpc name number [alias ...]
services name port/protocol [alias ...]
shells /path/to/shell
utmpx [time] type: properties
If one or more key arguments are provided, they will be looked up in database using the appropriate function. For example, ``passwd'' sup-
ports a numeric UID or user name; ``hosts'' supports an IPv4 address, IPv6 address, or host name; and ``services'' supports a service name,
service name/protocol name, numeric port, or numeric port/protocol name.
If no key is provided and database supports enumeration, all entries for database will be retrieved using the appropriate enumeration func-
tion and printed.
EXIT STATUS
The getent utility exits 0 on success, 1 if there was an error in the command syntax, 2 if one of the specified key names was not found in
database, or 3 if there is no support for enumeration on database.
SEE ALSO
getutxent(3), ethers(5), group(5), hosts(5), networks(5), nsswitch.conf(5), passwd(5), protocols(5), rpc(5), services(5), shells(5)
HISTORY
A getent command appeared in NetBSD 3.0, and was imported into FreeBSD 7.0. It was based on the command of the same name in Solaris and
Linux.
BSD
August 24, 2005 BSD